Do excuse me for the personal tone of this screen. In actuality, just who was responsible for the people who put on the uniform of the POWER in our last two seasons in Chicago? A cast list of the probable protagonists includes:
The following table lists the names of the
seventy
[on a 16-man roster] players who played
at least one game for us in 1994-95 or 1995-96. These guys are the players
to whom I shall always refer as
Going 12-68 over two seasons is like bathing in acid:
You will likely survive, but you will be changed permanently afterward.
It is still better than having no team at all.
When you look at this, there will be names which will make you
go, "Who?" (& they don't even have WikiPedia pages)
But do not be surprised at those guys who went on to bigger and better
things, such as the U.S.A. or Canadian National Teams, Major
League Soccer, and | or championship- & cup-winning sides, as well
as prestigious clubs in Europe.
We had competent players. What we
did not have was a cohesive management. I shall always believe that had
we gotten the franchise in July 1995, there would have been cohesive
management.
Chicago POWER players: 1994-95 & 1995-96. | |||
---|---|---|---|
Tony Sanneh* | Bill Sedgewick | Jim Harkness* | Juan Carranza* |
Larry Sunderland* | Tony Bono | Eloy Salgado | Joey Kirk |
Dan Stebbins | Ken Snow | Jon Szczepanski | Steve Snow |
Chuck Codd* | Mark Schlenker | Mark Manganello | Zelimir Antonijevic |
Mike Huwiler | Nick DeSantis | Brian Blaschka | Joey Murtagh |
Roldege Arius | Scott Kreitmeir | Jay Rensink | Albert Adade |
Victor Fernandez* | Chris King | Randy Soderman | Shane Steadman |
Doug Petras | Scott Geraghty | Rick Soderman | Tag Gambatese |
Mike Byrne | Franz Calixté | Guillermo Salgado | Dany Yonan |
Keenan Mikal | Neil Gilbert | Ed Puskarich | Kris Klassen |
Peter Gastis | Ross Hoagland | Greg Muhr | Bob Harmon |
Frank Arlasky | Jason Burdge* | Stuart Dobson | Jon Halliwill |
Mark Simpson | Jim Adams | Keith Nelson | Ko Thanadabouth |
Bret Hall | Brian Bradley | Dan Schmitz | Kyri Sellaidopoulos |
Jim Myers | Ryan Stengren | George Wendel | David Brown |
Bora Petric | Pat Gray | Lyndon Hooper | Larry Julius |
Tom Anagnost | Alex Umansky | Vince Dattilo | Jeff DeVettori |
Adam Hoch | Kevin Leucht |
Again, a very large "Thank You" to all these people who valiantly performed for few dollars and fewer supporters. Each of these players will receive a custom 90-minute audiocassette with songs which speak directly to the seasons. As a player receives this, I will tint his table cell tan. [N.B.: I haven't checked the links here in quite some time.]
If you did not get a cassette, click here to go to the access page.