The Los Angeles Aztecs were a soccer team that competed in the North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League

North American Soccer League was a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.-History:...

 from 1974-81. The team was based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

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 and part-owned (for a time) by Elton John

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The Aztecs are remembered for their mixed success and were sometimes compared to the New York Cosmos

New York Cosmos

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 as the Cosmos of the West Coast. However, they did not draw nearly as well as the Cosmos, or even the Seattle Sounders, who were consistently the attendance leaders among the Western N.A.S.L.