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Rock 'n' Roll Soccer : The Short Life and Fast Times of the North
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- Publication Name
- St. Martin's Press
- ISBN
- 9781250072382
- Book Title
- Rock 'N' Roll Soccer : the Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Soccer, General
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 19.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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The North American Soccer League - at its peak in the late 1970s - presented soccer as performance, played by men with a bent for flair, hair and glamour. More than just Pel and the New York Cosmos, it lured the biggest names of the world game like Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Gerd M ller and George Best to play the sport as it was meant to be played-without inhibition, to please the fans. The first complete look at the ambitious, star-studded NASL, Rock 'n' Roll Soccer reveals how this precursor to modern soccer laid the foundations for the sport's tremendous popularity in America today. Bringing to life the color and chaos of an unfairly maligned league, soccer journalist Ian Plenderleith draws from research and interviews with the men who were there to reveal the madness of its marketing, the wild expectations of businessmen and corporations hoping to make a killing out of the next big thing, and the insanity of franchises in scorching cities like Las Vegas and Hawaii. That's not to mention the league's on-running fight with FIFA as the trailblazing North American continent battled to innovate, surprise, and sell soccer to a whole new world. As entertaining and raucous as the league itself, Rock 'n' Roll Soccer recounts the hype and chaos surrounding the rapid rise and cataclysmic fall of the NASL, an enterprising and groundbreaking league that did too much right to ignore.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250072387
ISBN-13
9781250072382
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208758390
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rock 'N' Roll Soccer : the Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Soccer, General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
19.8 Oz
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Gv943.55.N67p53 2015
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An important contribution to the understanding of the NASL, American soccer, and worldwide football as a whole. Soccer fans will gain a better appreciation of the much derided league. Recommended for those interested in the game or in the intersection of sports and business., International Praise for Rock 'n' Roll Soccer: "A hugely entertaining account of the north American Soccer League in its 1970s heyday. Legends such as Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, George Best, Johan Cruyff and Eusebio played together every week as they tried to introduce the game to the US in a glorious but short-lived spectacular of sky-high salaries, showbiz hype and cheerleaders."- Daily Express (UK) "A compendious but vividly entertaining history of the League."- Independent on Sunday, 'Book of the Week'"Hugely entertaining."- Irish Echo, Scrupulously researched and sourced, with first-person accounts knitted together in an enthusiastic, irreverent narrative, this is a gift to fans of America's richer-than-expected soccer history., "Scrupulously researched and sourced, with first-person accounts knitted together in an enthusiastic, irreverent narrative, this is a gift to fans of America's richer-than-expected soccer history." -- Booklist "An important contribution to the understanding of the NASL, American soccer, and worldwide football as a whole. Soccer fans will gain a better appreciation of the much derided league. Recommended for those interested in the game or in the intersection of sports and business." -- Library Journal, starred review "An entertaining but level-headed look back at a league that broke a lot of rules and a lot of barriers." -- Sports Myriad "[This] is the definitive history on the original NASL. Nothing out there rivals the detail and variety provided by this book. It is easily one of the best soccer titles of 2015, if not the best." -- International Soccer Network, An entertaining but level-headed look back at a league that broke a lot of rules and a lot of barriers., Anyone with an interest in the sport, but especially fans of the Northwest's own Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders, and Vancouver Whitecaps, will want to read Rock 'n' Roll Soccer to learn how this part of the world caught football fever., "Scrupulously researched and sourced, with first-person accounts knitted together in an enthusiastic, irreverent narrative, this is a gift to fans of America's richer-than-expected soccer history." -- Booklist "An important contribution to the understanding of the NASL, American soccer, and worldwide football as a whole. Soccer fans will gain a better appreciation of the much derided league. Recommended for those interested in the game or in the intersection of sports and business." -- Library Journal, starred review "An entertaining but level-headed look back at a league that broke a lot of rules and a lot of barriers." -- Sports Myriad "Anyone with an interest in the sport, but especially fans of the Northwest's own Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders, and Vancouver Whitecaps, will want to read Rock 'n' Roll Soccer to learn how this part of the world caught football fever." -- NW Book Lovers
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-019172
Dewey Decimal
796.334/64097
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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An interesting read for fans of the late great NASL.
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