Download or read book Star-Spangled Soccer written by G. Hopkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star-Spangled Soccer traces the development of soccer in the USA. It is the first book that tells the story of how the sport rose to extreme highs and suffered almost catastrophic lows as it fought to position itself on the American sports landscape, beginning with the announcement from FIFA in 1988 that America would host the 1994 World Cup.