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Soccer in a football world : the story of America's forgotten game /

The circuitous journey of soccer in America.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wangerin, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Colección:Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 : Pelé 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.