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100 1 _aWhite, G. Edward,
245 1 0 _aSoccer in American culture :
_bthe beautiful game's struggle for status /
_cG. Edward White.
264 1 _aColumbia :
_bUniversity of Missouri Press,
_c2022.
300 _a299 pages :
_b23 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
490 0 _aSports and American culture.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aSoccer
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSoccer
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aWhite, G. Edward.
_tSoccer in American culture
_dColumbia : University of Missouri Press, 2022
_z9780826274700
_w(DLC) 2021048529.
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