UID:
edocfu_9961047303102883
Format:
xiv, 299 pages;
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780826222534
Series Statement:
Sports and American Culture
Content:
"An explanation of why the sport of soccer failed to take root in the United States when it spread around much of the rest of the world in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and why the sport has had a twenty-first-century renaissance in America"--
Note:
Introduction -- English origins -- Association football comes to America I : early impressions -- Association football comes to America II : decades of marginality -- Men's college soccer in the twentieth century -- Association football comes to America III : efforts to escape the doldrums, 1950-1995 -- FIFA and professional soccer in the United States -- The unusual history of women's soccer in America -- The emergence of Major League Soccer -- Summary and conclusions.
Language:
English
