The Sounders and NASL may have folded, but the spirit of the recreational and semi-professional players in the area would keep the sport alive until it was readmitted to top-flight soccer twenty five years later.

FORBES: E Pluribus Sounders (Part 1): Immigrant & NASL Roots

It was not until two years later that a swap deal took place, in which the Israelis handed over five Lebanese prisoners, including a man convicted of killing a child, and the bodies of 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, in exchange for the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser.

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