The competition did not take place but is cited as having helped set the stage for the eventual NFL Europe. In 1974, Kap was involved in plans for six European cities to play in the Intercontinental Football League under American football rules. Overall, Kap claimed to have placed nine European kickers in the NFL. In 1973, he worked as a kicking coach for the Houston Oilers. Kap is credited with recommending the Austrian footballer Toni Fritsch to the National Football League and the Dallas Cowboys, where Fritsch became a successful placekicker. He was not known to have coached professionally again. Kap kept a journal of the trip which included Saigon during the Vietnam War.Īfter the team's return to the United States, they made a pre-season trip to Costa Rica and Honduras, but following a poor start to the 1968 NASL season Kap was replaced as coach by Keith Spurgeon on June 8 after a 3-2 loss to the Chicago Sting.
Kap then spent several months in Europe to scout for players and took the team on an Odyssean seven-month world tour in 1967-68, beginning in August in Madrid and involving 45 games in 26 countries. On JDallas media reported that Kap had been contracted since June 1 as Tornado head coach and that his qualifications included having graduated as a specialist coach at the University of Budapest coaching school in Hungary. Kap told Hunt that he had studied alongside Hungarian footballing legend Ferenc Puskas at the national academy in that country and, more dubiously, that he had played for English club Manchester United.
In his capacity as a journalist, Kap corresponded with trailblazing sports promoter Lamar Hunt, owner of the fledgling North American Soccer League side Dallas Tornado, and learned that the club needed a head coach for the 1968 season. He is also described as having coached in Montreal, Quebec. In North America, he worked as writer-editor for the magazine Soccer Illustrated and published the North America and World Soccer News.
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Born in present-day North Macedonia while it was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kap obtained a law degree at the University of Belgrade and played professional football in Europe before moving to Toronto after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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