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

Author/creator White, G. Edward
Format Electronic
Publication InfoColumbia : University of Missouri Press, [2022]
Descriptionxiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesSports and American culture
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021048528
ISBN9780826222534 (hardcover)
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