Soccer in American Culture: The Beautiful Game's Struggle for Status

von G. Edward White

314 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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. > 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.

• Reihe: Sports and American Culture
• Themen: Sport & Freizeit Ballsportarten / Ballspiele Football, Fußballvarianten und verwandte Spiele Fußball
• ISBN: 9780826222930
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.07.2023
• Größe: 224 x 147 mm
• Verlag: Missouri Historical Society Press