Umfang:
1 online resource (302 pages)
ISBN:
9780803240360
Inhalt:
Timothy F. Grainey is a sports journalist who has written extensively on soccer for World Football Pages, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Soccer365.com, Equalizersoccer.com, and TheGlobalGame.com.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE Rapid Growth in the United States -- 1 Title IX, Soccer Moms, andPioneering Players -- 2 U.S. National Team, 1996-1999: "Welcome to Our Party" -- 3 Professional Women's Soccer and the wusa:"The Best Three Years of My Life" -- 4 Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) -- PART TWO Challenges in the Middle East, Africa,and Latin America -- 5 The State of the Game in theMiddle East -- 6 Challenges and Successes in Africa -- 7 Latin America: Fighting MachismoAttitudes -- 8 Women Athletes: Objects versusWholesome Role Models -- PART THREE Building Leagues and National Team Programs -- 9 Ancestral Roots: Leveraging the Diasporato Build the Game Abroad -- 10 National Leagues around the World -- 11 Overcoming a Fifty-Year Banin England -- 12 Canada's Youthful Road to Success -- Conclusion: "The Future of FootballIs Feminine" -- Afterword: 2011 Women's World Cup -- Appendix of Tables -- Selected Bibliography.
Anmerkung:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780803234703
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780803234703
Sprache:
Englisch
