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

by Wangerin, David.

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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Soccer -- United States -- History.

Soccer -- History.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip089/2008002940.html

9781592138852 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

1592138853 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)

350 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

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