Soccer as it was never meant to be

Dec. 19, 2008 5:20 PM PT

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Thanks to Sports Business Journal’s Closing Bell, which posted this video of a 1970s fashion show featuring the soccer uniforms in the Bundesliga. One thought, just what were we thinking in those days?

Not much more to say about it.

-- Mike James

Sports Now

Mike James

Mike James is a former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., James came to The Times from the Hartford Courant in 1985, took a hiatus from the print world in 2000 to work as coordinating producer at FoxSports.com and managing editor of the nightly news report on Fox Sports Net. He returned to The Times in 2002 and, after three years as deputy Sports editor, became Sports editor in 2009.

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