TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,G.Edward
TI  - Soccer in American culture: the beautiful game's struggle for status 
T2  - Sports and American culture
SN  - 0826222536
AV  - GV944 .U5 W55 2022
U1  - 796.3340973 23/eng/20211020
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Soccer
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -