Soccer in a Football World The Story of America's Forgotten Game

Name: Soccer in a Football World The Story of America's Forgotten Game
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ISBN: 9781592138852

ISBN-10: 1592138853

ISBN-13: 9781592138852

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Wangerin

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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface to the US Edition


Carless Hands: Introduction



A Game of its Own: America's path to football isolation



Tangled Roots: The first American Soccer League



Strangers on a Boat: False dawns and hard landings for the national team



'We will become phenomenal': Ambition and folly in the Sixties



Moving the Goalposts: Pele and the Cosmos



Shootout to the Death: The collapse of the NASL



A Foot in the Door: Harsh lessons at Italia 90



Revenge of the Commie Pansies: The World Cup comes to America



Clash and Burn: MLS: back to square one



Momentary Insanity: In and out of love with the women's game



Take Me Out to the Soccer-specific Facility: The 2002 World Cup and beyond


Index