The Chelsea Cosmos Invade Your American Soccer Universe…And Lose

By the time you read this, the all-powerful Chelsea Football Club, more a hybrid of the old New York Cosmos of the NASL than you know, take hold of the United States by some big name talent and lose 1-0 to some MLS All-Stars on a rocket blast. It was supposed to be a game in which the English Premier League champions face off against MLS best eleven and the English Premier League champions prevail. 

Instead, when all was said and done Chelsea didn’t win and the All-Stars minus Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey and Eddie Pope, its most recognizable stars, scored the winning goal when Canadian international and game MVP Dwayne DeRosario did his best superstar imitation from 20 yards out, at the top of the box, blasting a rocket into the upper netting.