Sports' Forgotten Heroes

Sports' Forgotten Heroes


31: Giorgio Chinaglia-Soccer

May 29, 2018

Giorgio Chinaglia was a scoring machine on one of the world’s most famous soccer teams – the New York Cosmos. They played in the now disbanded NASL. But at their height, the best players in the world wanted to play for them, and Chinaglia wanted a piece of the action too. His eight years with the team were extraordinary scoring goals at an astonishing rate, 193 in 213 games. Soccer historian and host of World Soccer Talk Kartik Krishnaiyer returns to SFH as we look back on the career of Giorgio Chinagli