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Author
Wangerin, David.
Title
Soccer in a football world : the story of America's forgotten game / David Wangerin
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008
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Description
1 online resource (350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series
Sporting
Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Contents
A game of its own : America's path to football isolation -- Tangled roots : the first American soccer league -- Strangers on a boat : false dawns and hard landings for the national team -- "We will become phenomenal' : ambition and folly in the sixties -- Moving the goalposts : Pelé and the Cosmos -- Shootout to the death : the collapse of the NASL -- A foot in the door : harsh lessons at Italia 90 -- Revenge of the commie pansies : the World Cup comes to America -- Clash and burn : MLS: back to square one -- Momentary insanity : in and out of love with the women's game -- Take me out to the soccer-specific facility : the 2002 World Cup and beyond
Summary
The circuitous journey of soccer in America
Notes
Includes index
English
Print version record
Subject
Soccer -- United States -- History
Soccer -- History
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Soccer.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
Soccer
United States
Genre/Form
History
Form
Electronic book
ISBN
9781592138869
1592138861
128204737X
9781282047372
9786612047374
6612047372
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