Angelo DiBernardo is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on May 16, 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
By this time DiBernardo had already played a season with the Los Angeles Aztecs, who drafted DiBernardo, of the North American Soccer League. He played the 1979 season with the Aztecs before they traded him and Larry Hulcer to the New York Cosmos. He would remain with the Cosmos from 1980 until 1984 when the NASL collapsed. He had played for the Cosmos as an amateur in the late 1970s. In 1980, he played 29 games and scored 7 goals, adding 13 assists. The 1981 season began well for DiBernardo. He played defense, midfield and forward with the top NASL team until he pulled a hamstring. The injury healed slowly and limited him to only 17 games with the team. In 1982, DiBernardo played only one game after before being badly injured in a hard tackle. Although he recovered from the injury, he never regained his pre-injury quickness or agility. In addition to playing outdoors with the Cosmos, DiBernardo played the 1983–1984 NASL indoor season. In May 1984, the Cosmos asked DiBernardo to take a 20% pay cut. He refused and the team placed him on waivers seven games into the season.
In February 1979, DiBernardo earned his first cap for the national team, coming on as a substitute for Ty Keough in a loss to the Soviet Union. DiBernardo went on to play every national team game in 1979 and was selected to play for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team. However, he did not compete in these games, held in the Soviet Union, due to President Carter’s boycott. DiBernardo became an integral part of the U.S. efforts to qualify for the 1982 World Cup and played in the four qualification games in 1980. Unfortunately, the U.S. failed to reach the finals.
