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Series
Publisher
Sportszone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn more about the different men's professional soccer leagues in the United States over the years along with the stars that played in them. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, and a glossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sportszone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Learn more about the different women's professional soccer leagues in the United States over the years along with the stars that played in them. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, and a glossary.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Delivers an assessment of the history and future of American men's soccer on the international playing field, discussing the growing symbiotic relationship between the national team and Major League Soccer and how the U.S. is cultivating young talent.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
An account of the first twenty years of Major League Soccer traces the league's organization in the years prior to its 1996 launch, its resilience and growth, and the rise of the supporters who have defined what it means to be a North American soccer fan.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Timed for publication just prior to the 2018 World Cup, which the U.S. did not qualify for, a revealing memoir by a leading American soccer coach shares insights into how the U.S. Men's National Team has prepared to compete in the past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abbeville Press Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of the U.S. Men's National Team, from the formation of U.S. Foot Ball Association one hundred years ago to the recent success of the Men's Team. The U.S. Men's National team has played in six consecutive World Cups and qualified to join the most recent World Cup being played in Brazil in 2014. "--
"Tells the story of U.S. Men's National Team from the formation of the U.S. Football Association 100 years ago to its six consecutive...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""New Kids in the World Cup" is a journey from dusty soccer fields in middle America to deafening stadiums in Italy for the United States' first appearance in the World Cup in forty years, all to an idyllic backdrop of the end of the 1980s and the dawn of the 1990s"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Women's Soccer Today entertains and informs both readers who love soccer in all forms and those just discovering the sport or the women's game. It introduces the best female players in the world and the top soccer nations in the women's game"--
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Get to know some of the many groundbreaking and legendary women in US soccer. Read about some amazing and unstoppable women who changed soccer in America like Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Briana Scurry, Trinity Rodman, and Mia Hamm. This book also includes a history of women's soccer in America and a summary of all four historic World Cup wins.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
In Soccer Without Borders, journalist Erik Kirschbaum lays out Klinsmann's vision for making the U.S. men's soccer team a dominant world power for the first time in its history. Featuring fascinating insights gleaned from Klinsmann's decades of dedicated study - both as a professional striker and as coach of the German national team - this book is an immersive and unparalleled road map for how to build a winning team in the most competitive professional...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team has won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set record TV ratings, drawn massive crowds, earned huge revenues for FIFA and U.S. Soccer, and helped to redefine the place of women in sports. But despite their dominance, and their rosters of superstar players, they've endured striking inequality: low pay, poor playing conditions, and limited opportunities to play in professional leagues. The National...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"October 10, 2017. The U.S. men's soccer team loses in Trinidad and Tobago, and fails to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Winning soccer's greatest prize never seemed more distant. Immediate fixes -- a new coach, a revamped professional league, a commitment to coaching education -- won't put the USA in the global elite. The nation is too fractious, too litigious, too wrapped up in other sports, and too late to the game. In Why the U.S. Men Will Never...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men's soccer players for so long-and shows why a golden era just might be coming The contrast is striking. As the United States women's national soccer team has long dominated the sport, winners of four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, the men's team has floundered. They failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and the last three Olympics...
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