Sports Franchise Navigates Immigration Law to Bring International Superstar Pelé to the United States

By Michael Wildes   When the ownership of the revitalized New York Cosmos began considering ways to create excitement about its debut of its franchise in the Major League Soccer league in 2013, one of the most obvious ideas was to embrace its glorious past when the Cosmos rose to national prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of the North American Soccer League or “NASL.”   There was no better way to do that than to bring in the face of that franchise, and the en