The soccer diaries : an American's thirty-year pursuit of the international game /

"Although soccer had long been the world's game when Michael J. Agovino 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. But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans got wise an...

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Main Author: Agovino, Michael J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
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