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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814933103321

Autore

White G. Edward

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, Missouri : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9780826222534

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 299 pages; ; 24 cm

Collana

Sports and American Culture

Soggetti

Soccer - United States - History

Soccer - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--