The World's Game,9780252067181

The World's Game

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ISBN13: 9780252067181
ISBN10: 0252067185
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary

Well-known Australian sports historian Bill Murray shows in this readable history how soccer has become the world's most popular sport.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi(2)
Introduction xiii
1. A Very British Beginning
1(20)
2. All around the World
21(21)
3. The Booming Twenties
42(23)
4. The Decade of the Dictators
65(22)
5. New Masters for Old: Soccer in the Fifties
87(21)
6. Britain and the Brash New World: Soccer in the Sixties
108(21)
7. Contracting World, Expanding Markets
129(23)
8. New Faces, Old Problems
152(24)
9. USA 1994
176(13)
Appendix 189(8)
Glossary 197(4)
Bibliographic Essay 201(8)
Index 209
Illustrations follow p. 86

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