From Football to Soccer – The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United…

Name: From Football to Soccer – The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United…
Brand: University of Illinois Press

University of Illinois Press

From Football to Soccer\nby Brian D. Bunk\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Brian D. Bunk\nTitle: From Football to Soccer\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Association football (Soccer)\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9780252085871\nISBN-10: 0252085876\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nRediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S.\nAcross North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as ath.