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"The United States of Soccer is the engaging history of MLS?s bootstrap origins prior to its 1996 launch, its near-demise in the early 2000s, its surprising resilience and growth in the following years, and its continued rise in respectability and recognition from soccer fans around the world."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 299 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The history of soccer in the United States is far richer and more complex than many people realize. Leagues competed in the U.S. as far back as the late 1800s, and in 1919 Bethlehem Steel became the first American professional soccer team to play in Europe when they toured Sweden. Multiple leagues existed during the early 1900s, but after the American Soccer Association folded in 1933, the country did not see a rebirth of professional soccer until...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The celebrated star of the U.S. women's national soccer team chronicles her amazing journey to the top,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 195 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men's soccer players for so long--and shows why a golden era just might be coming. The contrast is striking. As the United States women's national soccer team has long dominated the sport, winners of four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, the men's team has floundered. They failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and the last three Olympics...
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