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Soccer in American culture : the beautiful game's struggle for status / G. Edward White.

By: Series: Sports and American culturePublisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2022Description: 299 pages : 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0826222536
  • 9780826222534
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Soccer in American cultureDDC classification:
  • 796.3340973 23/eng/20211020
LOC classification:
  • GV944 .U5 W55 2022
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GV944 .U5 W55 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001507952

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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