Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status

by G. Edward White

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

In Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status, G. Edward White seeks to answer two questions. The first is why the sport of soccer failed to take root in the United States when it spread from England around much of the rest of the world in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second is why the sport has had a significant renaissance in America since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826222536
• ISBN13: 9780826222534
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"