The soccer diaries : an American's thirty-year pursuit of the international game / Michael J. Agovino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agovino, Michael J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--History.

Soccer.

Soccer--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although soccer had long been the world's game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans got wise and turned it into one of the most popular sports in the country. Agovino's love affair with soccer is a portrait of the game's culture and an intimate history of the sport's coming of age in the United States.Agovino's quest takes him from the unkempt field in the Bronx where he taught himself to play

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; Part 1: The Dark Ages, 1982-1993; Part 2: The Renaissance, 1994-2003; Part 3: The Enlightenment, 2004-2012; Epilogue; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-0597-9

1-933370-66-1

0-8032-5566-7

0-8032-5565-9