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Il Sogno Americano resta sempre quello. Anche se i paisà di oggi ci arrivano volando da star in business, e non da bastimenti in terza classe per Ellis Island. Una ventina abbondante gli "Insigne prima di insigne" nella MLS. Italians do it better - anche nel calcio, e pazienza se nell'hollywood boulvard della carriera. Prima della Major League ci fu però la NASL, esperimento fallito due volte nonostante Chinaglia e Wilson, la risposta tricolore - e biancoceleste-Lazio - alle superstar internazionali dell'epoca e compagni nei New York Cosmos, di Beckenbauer e Pelé (che però si ritirò nel '77, l'anno prima dell'arrivo di Wilson). Bettega in prestito ai Toronto Blizzard fu una meteora, ma aprì la strada, e rafforzò il modello: un grosso nome che facesse da richiamo per importanti comunità locali. E quella italiana di Toronto, dopo Bobby-gol e prima di Insigne, ha abbracciato Giovinco. A Montreal, si sono sentiti a casa Corradi (che dedicò il suo primo gol al...

https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/2021/02/05/where-are-they-now-2004-detroit-pistons-championship-team/#// AUBURN HILLS, MI - JUNE 15: Ben Wallace #3 (C) of the Detroit Pistons holds up the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship trophy as he celebrates with teammatesafter defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 100-87 in game five of the 2004 NBA Finals on June 15, 2004 at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Tom Pidgeon/Getty Images) (Tom Pidgeon, 2004 Getty Images) This article first appeared in the Pistons Pivot Newsletter, a periodical newsletter for Pistons fans with breaking news, analysis and more.  I’m Ken. I write a bunch of newsletters here at ClickOnDetroit, but I’m an avid basketball fan. So this will be a little extra special for me. We’ll send this periodically with...

https://eu.freep.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2021/02/08/tom-wilson-detroit-pistons-olympia-entertainment/4374929001/ Bill Dow | Special to Detroit Free Press On New Year’s Eve, Tom Wilson, one of the nation’s most respected and innovative sports marketing and entertainment executives, retired as President Emeritus of Olympia Entertainment, the company that runs the Red Wings, Tigers, and three, 313 Presents entertainment venues. Prior to his 10 years with the Ilitch organization, where he helped lead and facilitate the planning and construction of Little Caesars Arena, Wilson spent 32 years as then-Pistons owner Bill Davidson’s right-hand man. As president and chief executive officer of Palace Sports and Entertainment, he led the construction of the Palace of Auburn Hills, and helped Davidson became the first owner in sports history to win four championships in four different leagues in the same season: In 2003-04, the Pistons won their third NBA title, the Tampa Bay Lightning their f...

https://from-way-downtown.com/2021/07/31/detroits-leon-the-barber-1976/ Posted by  bobkuska  -  July 31, 2021 [When the Fort Wayne Pistons in the 1950s relocated to Detroit, pro basketball arrived with a thud. “The citizens of Detroit could have cared less if we were in town,” recalled coach Charley Eckman . In a city that loved its Lions and Tigers and Red Hawks, oh my, were the Pistons bad . Fred Zollner, the franchise’s aging, long-time owner, wintered in Miami . He followed his Pistons mostly in the newspaper and called in firings like ordering a peperoni pizza . After the team’s first eight seasons in Detroit, Zollner had hired-and-fired a grand total of five coaches and four general managers. By the early 1970s, Zollner’s new-and-improved Pistons, featuring the All-NBA talents Bob Lanier and Dave Bing, finally caught on with wealthy suburbanites from Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, and Grosse Pointe , Management soon catered to their more-sophisticated palettes by ope...

HEIDENHEIMER ZEITUNG  Dienstag. 4. Januar 2022 Vom ehrgeizigen Schüler aus Ulm zum Macher des FC Bayern München: Der einstige Manager und Präsident des Rekordmeisters wird am Mittwoch 70. In und um Ulm herum, da wussten sie es schon viel früher als anderswo: „Der Uli, das war schon immer ein Überflieger.“Was Gerhard „Jacky“Buck, sein einstiger Mitspieler bei der TSG Ulm 1846, und viele Weggefährten sich über Uli Hoeneß, den großen Fußballer der Donaustadt, der an diesem Mittwoch seinen 70. Geburtstag feiert, erzählen, erreicht fast schon legendäre Anklänge. Beispiele gefällig? Im Sommer 1960, als Klein Uli gerade mal acht Jahre war, schickte ihn seine Mutter Paula übers Pfingstwochenende ins Zeltlager der Kirchengemeinde bei Memmingen. Am selben Wochenende jedoch spielte seine Jugendmannschaft des VFB Ulm um die Bezirksmeisterschaft. Hoeneß buchste aus dem Camp aus, fuhr mit dem Fahrrad die rund 50 km lange Strecke nach Ulm und kam zur Halbzeit auf dem Sportplatz an. Sein Team lag ...