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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