Scott "Matchmaker" Michaels Now uses the NY Cosmos in his List of Stolen Memories

How This Man Refuses to Quit Using Old NASL Logos To Make Himself a So-Called Savior.

A long time ago, I discussed with all of you this man from England who is trying to invade our footballing/soccer Leagues as he has tried to create a rogue league and challenge the authority of the US Soccer Federation, CONCACAF & FIFA because he believes he should be the one to lead the fans into a better vision for the game.

Scott Michaels, who believes he is that revolutionary man, has gone about things the wrong way. He was trying to create a new league with fan ownership involved. He also created fake news articles online claiming that his League will become a better league in the USA than MLS, USL, and all combined.

He even hired an actor to play a fake League Commishioner to attempt to sway the interest of all American supporters to join his rogue league. He claimed that the fans were happy that the former or deceased NASL teams that he represented through the trademarks he acquired were coming back.

He also named his rogue league the National Soccer League, or the NSL, but failed to do his research because there is already an amateur soccer league as a member of US Soccer called the NSL on the western side of the country. This man, who thinks he knows better than all of us, continues to try to pull the wool over our eyes.

He has the trademarks and logos of these old North American Soccer League Clubs: Atlanta Chiefs, Boston Minutemen, Chicago Sting, Detroit Express, Los Angeles Aztecs, Memphis Rogues, Philadelphia Atoms, San Antonio Thunder & the Washington Diplomats. Kartik Krishnaiyer and I jointly wrote our article here on Beyond the 90 back on May 3rd, 2023.

Since then, and many articles later, there was silence. Sure, he tried to make another scheme, but nothing came to fruition. He would insult football journalists, podcasters, and yours truly, but of course, I shrugged them off. But through his LinkedIn page, he has now gone too far, and it involves that famous team that has lived, died, resurected, died again, and now is back in USL League One.

The Cosmos brand has returned for the 2026 season at USL League One, and they will be playing their home matches at Hinchcliff Stadium in Paterson, NJ. The historic stadium that was used for Negro League Baseball, Eastside High School Football, and other events.

Now, for the Independent Minor League Baseball Team NJ Jackals, and had two friendly matches involving the Ecuadorian side Barcelona S.C. (Not a sister club for FC Barcelona in Spain), and both matches were sold out. The men running the club are Chairperson Baye-Adofo Wilson and CEO Erik Stover. Rocco Commissio is a minority owner of the ownership group.

While they had their announcement of the Cosmos coming back as a club again, apparently Mr. Michaels wants to contest this because he has said he has a claim to the trademarks of the Cosmos after Commissio decided not to renew the trademark agreement, now he owns Fiorentina of Italy. Throughout Michaels rantings, he is claiming to lead them back and not the current ownership group.

He is ready to fight them for what he believes is a violation because he says he has the rights to the trademark. But what he also did was go back to his old bag of tricks. Once again, he created a fake news article about the Cosmos, but using a real logo from a real local news page. A so-called news article from WANE.com is fake and misleading.

Scott Michaels got his made-up news article from a company called News Matrics, using a fake company called EIN PRESSWIRE, using a real news Channel logo, a CBS News Channel Affiliate from FORT WAYNE, INDIANA! Wait. Wait a minute? Fort Wayne, Indiana? CBS Channel 15 at wane.com? I even checked their official website, in their sports department, and never found the link.

What happened with contacting the New York City Stations like WCBS Channel 2, WNBC Channel 4, and WABC Channel 7? WNYW Channel 5, WWOR Channel 9, WPIX Channel 11, News 12 NJ, News 12 Long Island? What about the local Newspapers? The Daily News, The NY Post, The Bergen Record, The Newark Star Ledger? Newsday out on Long Island?

I know my good friend Tina Cervasio of WNYW Channel 5 reported on the Cosmos coming back, and I believe she was out at Hinchcliff Stadium, but did Scott Michaels contact her? OF COURSE NOT! Why would he ever contact the real media when all he does is create fake sports news articles?

This man has no scruples; he is looking for a quick buck. He claims he wants to be the man to drive a wedge into American Soccer and start a rogue league, and he doesn't contact the real media, but creates fake news reports? What is this man's problem trying to insult our intelligence for? It's getting tiresome, and now it's getting insulting.

Former New York Cosmos great Werner Roth has been commenting against him, taking a stand against Michaels, and I applaud him as one of the few American players who wore that white kit and roamed the astroturf at Giants Stadium, filling up the crowds from the front row to the last in all three tiers of seating capacity.

And now I am insulted. I am disgusted, I am angry and hurt. That club that got my fandom for the game when I was a kid growing up in the Bronx, NY, on the corner of the Grand Concourse and E. 202nd Street. My parents, who immigrated with their parents from Eastern Europe during and after World War II, met in Manhattan along with my Uncle (my dad's brother), my Aunt, and two cousins would make the trek to the games.

We would drive from the boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, driving over the George Washington Bridge, then take the NJ Turnpike for a short trip to the Meadowlands Sports Complex. My two cousins and I would join the Cosmos Kickers youth fan club, and watch that club play, and we didn't care where we sat. We also saw Bugs Bunny in a Cosmos jersey running around the stadium.

Now, Mr. Michaels wants to tarnish that memory. Now he wants to claim he is for the game in this country, and he wants to do it by ill-gotten gains. Now he thinks the Cosmos belongs to him. No, it doesn't; he is part of the problem. He is easily compared to Paul Kemsley when he took that iconic brand and just turned it into a jersey cash grab.

Kemsley had a testimonial at Old Trafford with a bunch of former players from the recent past of European Stars, and former American MLS players getting their rear ends handed to them by Manchester United. And let's also not forget how Kemsley strung along those fans begging for a club of their own, and fooling them into thinking he was their saviour.

While I wish good luck to the current owners of this version of the Cosmos, I, too, hope it doesn't go down the drain again, but for Mr. Michaels, it's time for you to get out of this business and go bother the clubs in England and start something over there. We don't need you here. You're not a football revolutionary; you are a cancer. You think you're fooling people here, but you are fooling no one.

You try to insult our intelligence, but at the end of the day, you're just another Paul Kemsley. Only this time, more sinister and devious than the Master. I have more respect for that brand, the history of that club, and the former players who made that club special back in the 70's & 80's than you have within you're whole body.