01895nam 2200385 450 991081493310332120240102235755.09780826222534(CKB)20189019400041(EXLCZ)992018901940004120220205d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierSoccer in American culture the beautiful game's struggle for status /G. Edward WhiteColumbia, Missouri :University of Missouri Press,2022.©2022xiv, 299 pages;24 cmSports and American CultureIntroduction -- 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."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.Sports and American culture.SoccerUnited StatesHistorySoccerSocial aspectsUnited StatesSoccerHistory.SoccerSocial aspectsWhite G. Edward307837MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910814933103321Soccer in American culture4082286UNINA