The Toronto Blizzard were a professional soccer club based in Toronto , Ontario , Canada that played in the North American Soccer League (NASL).
10-579: Toronto Blizzard may refer to: Toronto Blizzard (1971–1984) , the original soccer club, a franchise of the North American Soccer League Toronto Blizzard (1986–1993) , the later club and franchise of the Canadian Soccer League Toronto Azzurri Blizzard , a Canadian women's semi-professional soccer club North American blizzard of 1999 , when
20-579: A team in NASL's indoor league in 1975 and 1976, as did the Blizzard from 1980 through 1982. In 2010, the 1976 Soccer Bowl winning team was inducted into the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame . On March 28, 1985, the NASL officially suspended operations for the 1985 season, when only Toronto and Minnesota Strikers were interested in playing. In the meantime Blizzard owners York-Hanover purchased Dynamo Latino of
30-913: Is a Swedish football manager who lastly coached the women's team of Stattena IF . Born in Oskarshamn , he played for local club IFK Oskarshamn before moving to Swedish giants IFK Göteborg , where he won the 1981–82 UEFA Cup . After a short stint with the Toronto Blizzard , he ended his playing career at Örgryte IS . He was capped 5 times for Sweden . He began his coaching career at Örgryte IS , first as an assistant-coach, then as first-team coach. He also managed Landskrona BoIS (which he got promoted to Allsvenskan in 1993), HamKam , FK Haugesund , Kalmar FF , Assyriska Föreningen , Trelleborgs FF , Sarpsborg 08 FF and Helsingborgs IF . After winning Allsvenskan with Helsingborgs IF in 2011 , Karlsson decided to withdraw as head coach on 14 June 2012 and
40-601: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Toronto Blizzard (1971%E2%80%931984) The Toronto Metros joined the NASL in 1971. Their home field was Varsity Stadium . In 1975, 50% of the team was purchased for $ 250,000 by the Toronto Croatia of the National Soccer League (NSL), and the team became the Toronto Metros-Croatia . The club won
50-583: The National Soccer League with the intention of renaming them the Toronto Blizzard. Though the Blizzard franchise had never actually folded, they had ceased operations for several months between these incarnations and NSL regulations did not permit a name change in the midst of the season. The following season (1986) Dynamo Latino began play as the Toronto Blizzard. A history of this team can be found at Toronto Blizzard (1986–93) . Conny Karlsson (footballer) Conny Karlsson (born 21 November 1953 )
60-488: The 1976 Soccer Bowl championship. However, they continued to struggle at the gate. In mid September 1976, it was reported that team owed $ 100,000 to the Ontario government and $ 95,000 to the metropolitan Toronto government, that several star players were free agents and the team might fold. The Global Television Network purchased 85% of the struggling Toronto Metros-Croatia on February 1, 1979, for $ 2.6 million. Following
70-564: The Canadian army was called into Toronto to clear the snow Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Toronto Blizzard . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toronto_Blizzard&oldid=1012234856 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
80-1084: The NASL until 1984, the last year of league operations. The team were runners-up for the league championship in 1983, losing the Soccer Bowl to the Tulsa Roughnecks 2–0 in front of nearly sixty thousand people at Vancouver's BC Place Stadium. They were runners-up again in 1984 when they lost to the Chicago Sting two games to none in a best of three championship series. The club was coached in these final two years by Bobby Houghton , assisted by Dave Turner and featured Roberto Bettega , David Byrne , Cliff Calvert , Pasquale De Luca , Charlie Falzon , Sven Habermann , Paul Hammond , Paul James , Conny Karlsson , Victor Kodelja , Trevor McCallum , Colin Miller , Jan Möller , Jimmy Nicholl , Ace Ntsoelengoe , Randy Ragan , Neill Roberts , John Paskin , Derek Spalding , and Bruce Wilson in its lineup. The Blizzard qualified for
90-858: The play-offs on only two other occasions, in 1979 and 1982, losing in the first round each time. Prominent players during the first four years included Clyde Best , Željko Bilecki , Jimmy Bone , Roberto Bettega , Drew Busby , David Byrne, Cliff Calvert, Tony Chursky , David Fairclough , Colin Franks , George Gibbs , Jimmy Greenhoff , Steve Harris-Byrne , Graham Hatley , Victor Kodelja, Sam Lenarduzzi , Peter Lorimer , Ivan Lukačević , Drago Vabec , Mike McLenaghen , Willie McVie , Alan Merrick , Charlie Mitchell , Juan Carlos Molina , Jan Möller, Francesco Morini , Ace Ntsoelengoe, Bobby Prentice , Randy Ragan, Neill Roberts, Malcolm Robertson , Peter Roe , Jomo Sono , Gordon Sweetzer , Blagoje Tamindžić , Jose Velasquez , and Bruce Wilson. The Metros-Croatia fielded
100-472: The purchase, Toronto Croatia returned to the NSL as a separate club. With only 7 of the 26 players from the 1978 roster staying, the NASL team was renamed the Toronto Blizzard following the takeover. Under the new ownership, attendances nearly doubled. From 1979 to 1983 the Blizzard played home games at Exhibition Stadium before returning to Varsity Stadium for the 1984 NASL season . The Blizzard were members of
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