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Soccer in American Culture - The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status
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Soccer in American Culture - The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status
Series: Sports and American Culture
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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 the last decade of the
twentieth century, to the point where it is now the 4th largest
participatory sport in the United States and is thriving, in both
men’s and women’s versions, at the high school, college, and
professional levels. White considers the early history of
“Association football” (soccer) in England, the persistent
struggles by the sport to establish itself in America for much of
the twentieth century, the role of public high schools and colleges
in marginalizing the sport, the part played by FIFA, the
international organization charged with developing soccer around
the globe, in encumbering the development of the sport in the
United States, and the unusual history of women’s soccer in
America, which evolved in the twentieth century from a virtually
nonexistent sport to a major factor in the emergence of men’s--as
well as women's--soccer in the U.S. in the twentieth century.
Incorporating insights from sociology and economics, White explores
the multiple factors that have resulted in the sport of soccer
struggling to achieve major status in America and why it currently
has nothing like the cultural impact of other popular American
sports--baseball and American football--which can be seen by the
comparative lack of attention paid to it in sports media, its low
television ratings, and virtually nonexistent radio broadcast
coverage.
General
Imprint: |
University of Missouri Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Sports and American Culture |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
G. Edward White
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
314 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8262-2293-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8262-2293-5 |
Barcode: |
9780826222930 |
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