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The Soccer Diaries - Michael J. Agovino

The Soccer Diaries

An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game
Buch | Softcover
318 Seiten
2018
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-0597-1 (ISBN)
CHF 31,90 inkl. MwSt
Although soccer had long been the world’s game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans got wise and turned it into one of the most popular sports in the country. Agovino’s love affair with soccer is a portrait of the game’s culture and an intimate history of the sport’s coming of age in the United States.


Agovino’s quest takes him from the unkempt field in the Bronx where he taught himself to play to some of the sport’s most storied venues and historic matches. With Agovino we travel from school fields to Giants Stadium, then from England to Germany, Italy, and Spain, along the way taking in the final days of the North American Soccer League, the 1994 World Cup, and the birth of Major League Soccer. Offering the perspective of fan, player, and journalist, Agovino chronicles his obsession with the sport and its phenomenal evolution. 

Michael J. Agovino is the author of The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Familyfrom the Utopian Outskirts of New York City.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: August 7, 1982
Part I: The Dark Ages, 1982-1993
Part II: Renaissance, 1994-2003
Part III: The Enlightenment, 2004-2012
Epilogue: August 8, 2012

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 photographs, 1 illustration
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sport Ballsport Fußball
ISBN-10 1-4962-0597-9 / 1496205979
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-0597-1 / 9781496205971
Zustand Neuware
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