5 Sockers Are Selected to Play in All-Star Game

Steve Zungul leads a quintet of Sockers while Baltimore and Chicago each placed four players on the 1984-85 Major Indoor Soccer League All-Star team announced Monday.

The game will be played at the Richfield Coliseum on Feb. 24. ESPN will televise the game at 2:30 p.m. PST.

Other Sockers named to the Western Division team were midfielders Jean Willrich and Brian Quinn, defender Kevin Crow and goalkeeper Zoltan Toth.

The remainder of the West team includes forwards Juli Veee of Las Vegas, Tatu of Dallas and Batata of Los Angeles, midfielders Jorgen Kristiansen and Eric Rasmussen of Wichita, defenders Kim Roentved of Wichita, Helmut Dudek of Las Vegas, Greg Makowski of Kansas City, Ralph Black of Tacoma and Gus Mokalis of Los Angeles, and goalie Mike Mahoney of Los Angeles.

Baltimore places leading vote-getter forward Stan Stamenkovic, defenders Mike Stankovic and Bruce Savage and goalie Scott Manning on Eastern Division squad. Chicago players named are forwards Karl-Heinz Granitza and Pato Margetic, midfielder Gerry Gray and defender Franz Mathieu.

Filling out the East contingent are forwards Stan Terlecki of Pittsburgh, Craig Allen of Cleveland and Jan Goossens of Minnesota, midfielders Ricky Davis of St. Louis and Kai Haaskivi of Cleveland, defenders Tony Bellinger of St. Louis and Dan Canter of the Cosmos and goalkeeper Slobo Ilijevski of St. Louis.

Every MISL player was permitted to vote for 12 players--none from his own team--and East Coach Kenny Cooper of Baltimore and West Coach Roy Turner named four additional players.

Cleveland Coach Timo Liekoski will be Cooper’s assistant, while Socker Coach Ron Newman will assist Turner.