Soccer newsletter: Indoor soccer deserves a wider audience

Hello and welcome to the weekly L.A. Times soccer newsletter. “As the goalkeeper in both games, as opposed to outdoor, I just felt like it suited me better.” Toth, 32, wasn’t the first one in his family to make that decision. 1.” In its heyday, roughly the years between the demise of the top-tier North American Soccer League and the start of MLS, indoor soccer averaged more than 8,000 fans a game and featured stars such as Preki, who played outdoors for England’s Everton and in the 1998 World Cup for the U.S., and Yugoslav international Steve Zungul, who played in the third-place game of the 1976 Euros. “I’m going to turn this team sometime here in the next several months into a nonprofit because we do more for community good,” he said. “It’s been a very long journey,” she said after a training session at the team’s temporary home at Pepperdine University.