{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"322: The New York Cosmos' &quot;Pel\u00e9 Years&quot; - With Charles Cuttone","description":" Veteran New York-based sports writer\/public relations pro Charles Cuttone has seen just about everything in his nearly 50 years of promoting professional sports across the Gotham sports scene - dating all the way back to 1974 as a fresh-faced elementary school intern with the World Football League's ill-fated New York Stars. While the WFL gig (and team, for that matter) didn't last long, it was his next experience that following spring - with a rag-tag but ambitious pro soccer outfit called the New York Cosmos - that both solidified a budding career interest in sports PR, and yielded a ring-side seat to one of the most indelible stories in 1970s sports history. In his new book &quot;Pel\u00e9, His North American Years: A Tribute&quot; - visually co-created with the exquisite imagery of legendary sports photographer George Tiedemann - Cuttone recounts the three-season, two-and-a-half-year phenomenon known as Pel\u00e9 - and how the world's then-greatest player (and arguably, most famous athlete) transformed not only a earnest club and its backwater league, but also a &quot;foreign&quot; game into the mainstream consciousness of American sports.   + +&amp;nbsp;+  SPONSOR THANKS:    Old School Shirts (promo code: GOODSEATS):&amp;nbsp;   oldschoolshirts.com\/goodseats DraftKings Sportsbook (promo code: GOODSEATS): https:\/\/myaccount.draftkings.com\/login&amp;nbsp;   &amp;nbsp; BUY\/READ EARLY &amp;amp; OFTEN:    Pel\u00e9, His North American Years: A Tribute (2023): https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tLxmKD     &amp;nbsp; FIND &amp;amp; FOLLOW:  Website:  https:\/\/goodseatsstillavailable.com\/ Twitter:  https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodSeatsStill Instagram (+ Threads):  https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goodseatsstillavailable\/ Facebook:  https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoodSeatsStillAvailable\/ YouTube:  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@goodseatsstillavailable   ","author_name":"Good Seats Still Available","author_url":"https:\/\/goodseatsstillavailable.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/28388933\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/aa0926\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/163038539"}