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Distant Corners : American Soccer's History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes
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In Distant Corners, his follow-up to Soccer in a Football World, David Wangerin details several of the people, places, and events that shaped American soccer history. Despite its struggle for popular acceptance, soccer in the United States has a rich history. Wangerin profiles Tom Cahill, the almost-forgotten "father of American soccer," and writes passionately about the 1979 North American Soccer League season, the high-water mark of the game in the twentieth century.
Wangerin shows how the American appetite for soccer has ebbed and grown over the years, chronicling the game at the college and professional levels and describing the city of St. Louis's unique historic attachment to the sport. Wangerin believes that the time is ripe for American fans to look into their own history and recognize the surprisingly deep connection their country has to soccer.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781439906316
- ISBN-10: 1439906319
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publish Date: February 2014
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 264
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