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Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Markovits, Andrei S. (Author), Hellerman, Steven L., 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sports > Sociological aspects.
Soccer > Social aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Soccer.
Sports > États-Unis > Aspect sociologique.
Soccer > Social aspects > United States.
Sports > United States > Sociological aspects.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The argument: sports as culture in industrial societies- American conformities and exceptions
  • The formation of the American sport space: "crowding out" and other factors in the relegation and marginalization of soccer
  • Soccer's trials and tribulations: beginnings, chaos, "almosts", obscurity, and colleges
  • The formation and rearrangement of the American sport space in the second half of the twentieth century
  • From the North American Soccer League to Major League Soccer
  • The World Cup in the United States
  • The coverage of World Cup '98 by the American media and the tournaments's reception by the American public.

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