The U.S. Women's Soccer Team : an American success story / Clemente A. Lisi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lisi, Clemente Angelo, 1975-

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

U.S. Women's National Soccer Team.

U.S. Women's National Soccer Team--History.

Soccer for women.

Women soccer players.

Women soccer players--United States--Biography.

Soccer for women--United States.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2013.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Taylor Trade Pub., c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Updated through the 2012 Olympics. In the second edition of The U.S. Women's Soccer Team, Clemente A. Lisi looks at how women's soccer has gained popularity over the last couple of decades, detailing the program's infancy and how it steadily became a model for women's teams around the globe. Beginning with the start of the U.S. program in 1985, Lisi recounts the development of the women's team, highlighted by their two first place finishes in the Women's Worl

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Top of the World; Chapter 02. Norwegian Heartbreak; Chapter 03. The Golden Girls; Chapter 04. Party Like It's 1999; Chapter 05. Feeling Down Under; Chapter 06. Revenge; Chapter 07. New World Order; Chapter 08. Going Solo; Chapter 09. Top of the World Again; Appendix A. U.S. Women's National Team Year-by-Year All-Time Results, 1985-2009; Appendix B. U.S. Women's National Team All-Time Team Leaders, 1985-2009; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-42148-1

1-282-56187-1

9786612561870

0-8108-7416-4

OCLC:

649908018