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“United Soccer” was organized in the 1950s as a promoter of exhibition or “Goodwill Games” of soccer between international clubs and the predominantly ethnic soccer clubs on the east coast, particularly in Philadelphia.
In the late 1950s around the time of a match with FC Berlin, a few men from the organization came up with the idea to form a “German League.” Securing the commitment of the prominent clubs (Phoenix SC, German Hungarians, and Vereinigung Erzgebirge) was the pledge that the Reading Americans, Schwarzwald Kickers, and Kolping SC needed to commit to founding a new league.