Soccer Diaries - An American''s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game

Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Agovino is the author of The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Familyfrom the Utopian Outskirts of New York City. Klappentext Michael J. Agovino is the author of The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money! Luck! and Familyfrom the Utopian Outskirts of New York City. Zusammenfassung Although soccer had long been the world's game when the author 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. Offering the perspective of fan! player! and journalist! this book chronicles his obsession with the sport and its phenomenal evolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Michael J Agovino, Michael J. Agovino
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2014
• EAN: 9780803240476
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4047-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)