Soccer in American culture : the beautiful game's struggle for status /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	White, G. Edward (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2022]
Series:	Sports and American culture series.
Subjects:	Soccer > United States > History. Soccer > Social aspects > United States. Soccer. Soccer > Social aspects. United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.