This Week in American Soccer History: Minnesota Kicks v Glasgow Rangers
du Nord, May 27, 2011
This week in Soccer History: Minnesota Kicks versus Glasgow Rangers, May 26 1976Contributing Editor Dillon Young(links posted are to images of the original documents from the era)The Scottish powers Rangers toured North America in May 1976 with a stop in Minnesota, marking the first time a professional soccer team in Minnesota played an international squad.The game in Bloomington, MN on May 26, 1976 was publicized as a physical battle against a team who had won the Scottish Triple (the division, League Championship and the Scottish FA Cup) and that fielded 8 players from the national squad that had recently defeated the English National Squad 2-1. This resonated with the Kicks, a team loaded with English talent who wanted to enact some revenge.The match ended in a 2-2 draw with over 11,000 in attendance watching a great back and forth match where a relatively unknown South African Chaka Ncgobo teamed up with fellow South African Ace Ntsolengque (who had good chemistry from playing together with Soweto's Kaiz