Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism.
"Warmly recommended to all those who want to understand and appreciate . . . popular culture in the United States."--Roman Horak,Der Standard(Vienna)"The text is well referenced, historically grounded, and offers excellent insight into US soccer and its past, present, and future potential as a major sport. Highly recommended for both the general population and those interested in sports studies and sociology of sport."--Choice"This is the first adequate sociocultural history of the sport in the United States. . . . Sports sociologists will look to this book for soccer material and also for the author's fresh conceptualization of sports culture. Sociologists with more general interests in culture and institutional analysis might also find it useful and informative as a case study."--John Wilson,American Journal of Sociology