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Trying to find the history of soccer in the United States is not an easy task. Even though the sport has been played in the United States since the 19th Century, its past has been poorly documented. Growing to popularity in the rest of the world at the same time football (American style) was becoming popular in the U.S., few newspapers would take note of any matches played in the U.S. Further complicating matters is that there are two major repositories of American soccer history: one is the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame, which is presently homeless, the other is an archive of a prominent soccer organizer in the country, Tom Cahill, and its at the University of Southern Illinois Edwardsville campus.David Wangerin was born in the U.S., but now lives in Scotland. Nevertheless, he has done a remarkable job of documenting the fragmentary history of the worlds most popular sport in the worlds richest nation. Wangerin believes that Americans, when presented with the choice of continuing to follow the brutal, and sometimes deadly, sport of American football in the early 20th Century, or switching over to soccer (Association football), American sporting fans really enjoyed the violence more.Tours between English sides and American teams demonstrated the difference between the way the sport was perceived on either side of the Atlantic. The English teams would play a crisp, technical, ball possession game, while American teams would just love to run all over the place and kick the ball as hard as they can. American teams would try to shrink the field to reduce the need for passing and increase the value of bashing your opponent in the face. This was not a long term success strategy.Wangerin introduces us to Tom Cahill, who helped to start what is now known as the United States Soccer Federation, back in 1912. Prior to that, the only governing body for soccer in the United States was an affiliate of Englands Football Association. (To this day, England has no geographic descriptor for that group, just like the countrys name not appearing on its stamps.) Cahill was the most influential man in American soccer for the first half of the 20th Century and hardly anybody knows who he is. There are different attempts to start professional leagues in the U.S., but none of them succeed. From around World War I through the late 1930s, St. Louis became the center of American soccer, but the sport eventually was drowned out by other sports.In the 1970s, the North American Soccer League tried to move into the conversation about sports in America. The Cosmos, which featured star players like Pele and Franz Beckenbauer, would draw crowds of 70,000 to the Meadowlands in New Jersey. But the league could not survive in other cities, even in places where one would expect soccer to be popular, such as Los Angeles. Ultimately, the league depended too much on foreign players and used too few American players, making the NASL more of a curiosity than an actual integral part of the American sports world.Throughout the 20th Century, people tried to make soccer an American game. But no one could agree what that meant. Faced with a field full of people with names that looked foreign, sports fans in the U.S. fell back on the sports they were familiar with. Baseball had a more nationalistic feel and football let people enjoy their violence. Soccer could not match either of those. The best soccer could do is what it has done now, which is settle for being one of many somewhat popular sports in an increasingly multicultural country.This book is somewhat like soccer. If you are interested in the sport and its history, you will enjoy the work that Wangerin did in unearthing the history of the game. But if you think soccer is something that ESPN just forces on to you to keep you from watching discussion of Brett Favre all the time, then you may want to give it a pass
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