Soccer in American culture: the beautiful game's struggle for status

Introduction

English origins

Association football comes to America I : early impressions

Association football comes to America II : decades of marginality

Men's college soccer in the twentieth century

Association football comes to America III : efforts to escape the doldrums, 1950-1995

FIFA and professional soccer in the United States

The unusual history of women's soccer in America

The emergence of Major League Soccer

Summary and conclusions.