Soccer in American culture : the beautiful game's struggle for status /
White, G. Edward,
Soccer in American culture : the beautiful game's struggle for status / G. Edward White. - 299 pages : 23 cm. - Sports and American culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
0826222536 9780826222534
2021048528
Soccer--Social aspects--United States.
Soccer--History.--United States
GV944 .U5 / W55 2022
796.3340973
Soccer in American culture : the beautiful game's struggle for status / G. Edward White. - 299 pages : 23 cm. - Sports and American culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
0826222536 9780826222534
2021048528
Soccer--Social aspects--United States.
Soccer--History.--United States
GV944 .U5 / W55 2022
796.3340973