New Hampshire Ramblers
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New Hampshire Ramblers were an American soccer club. In 1995, the club was originally called the Montreal Ramblers, but were forced to move by FIFA before playing any games. They are most notable for having Khalil Azmi as their goalkeeper.
The semi-professional soccer club was founded in the late 1980s as Ramblers de Montreal by Noel Okorougo,
financier and sports rights agent who succeeded Pascal Cifarelli as President of Ligue National du Soccer
Quebec (LNSQ) and was also former Commissioner East of Canadian National Soccer League (CNSL) 1, 2 .
During its years in LNSQ and CNSL Ramblers de Montreal played its home games at the Montreal Olympic
Stadium annex in a highly competitive semi-professional league that included clubs such as Toronto Italia and
Toronto Croatia both with huge ethnic support base.
At the end of the 1994 FIFA World Cup in USA, Ramblers de Montreal fortified its squad by signing Khalil
Azmi 3,4, goalkeeper of Morocco National team in USA World Cup 1994 as well as other African and South
American players with professional soccer experience. With higher quality players, some with World Cup and
professional football experience, Montreal Ramblers quickly outgrew the competition available in its domestic
league. In addition, the pool of professional soccer players and fan base in Montreal was not large enough to
accommodate a semi-professional club alongside a professional team Impact de Montreal owned and financed by
Saputo family and favored by the establishment in Quebec. Ramblers de Montreal made a cross border move to
USA in 1995 as a USISL expansion franchise called New Hampshire Ramblers. Soccer authorities in Canada
initially refused to grant Ramblers the right to relocate the semi-professional football franchise.
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