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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, G. Edward, author.

Series:

Sports and American culture.

Sports and American Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--United States--History.

Soccer.

Soccer--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 299 pages; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 2022.

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.

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.

ISBN:

9780826222534