The American Soccer League - The Golden Years of American Soccer 1921-1931

It was the "American Menace, " according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company team. The resulting teams, many of them ethnic, beat the best teams in the world at that time. The decade from 1921 to 1931 became known as the "golden years" of American soccer. This book recreates a detailed and comprehensive record of these forgotten years of American soccer - the first attempt to introduce professional soccer on a major-league scale to the United States.

About the author

By Colin Jose

Summary

Documented through newspaper clippings, written inquiries, memoirs and personal accounts, this text records not only the results, the goalscorers, the lineup teams that made up the American Soccer League from 1921 to 1931, but uncovers as much information as possible about the teams and players.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Jose
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780810834293
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-3429-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 243 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 953 g
• Series: American Sports History Series; American Sports History; American Sports History Series; American Sports History
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous