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"Bascom describes how soccer brought him sanity in the middle of a brutal Marxist revolution in Ethiopia in the 1970s; playing on dirt fields in Kenya and Southern Sudan; Garden City, Kansas high school coach Joaquin Padilla starting a soccer program to engage Mexican American students and leading t...
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University Press of Kansas,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Hmmm. Should You Read This Book?
- First Tackle
- Did You Know? Historical Origins of the Game
- On Using One's Head
- One for the Ages
- Did You Know? How the Ball Evolved
- Stress, Soccer, and Relief!
- Up in the Air
- Did you Know? How Soccer Got Its Goals
- Soccer at All Costs?
- A Toast to the Toughest!
- Did You Know? Why All the Goal-Scoring Hullabaloo?
- ¿Hablas Español? ¿Hablas Fútbol?
- One Game but Many Points of View
- Did you Know? Just How Universal Is This Game?
- Offsides! Yankee Fans in a Premier Palace
- Pride vs. Spirit
- Did You Know? Pioneers of Women's Soccer
- Why I Can't Stop Playing
- Religion vs. Soccer
- Did You Know? Even Bob Marley Played!
- Coaching Chaos
- Wonder Girl
- Did You Know? How Referees Took Charge
- No Ball? No Problem!
- Out in the Open
- Did You Know? How Indoor Soccer Began
- A United Nations of Soccer-in Kansas?
- The Darker Side
- Did You Know? A Homeless World Cup
- Mr. Soccer-Oumar Seck
- Football to Fútbol
- Did You Know? Why International Games are Called Caps
- Building Soccer Bridges
- A Family Affair
- Did You Know? War, Soccer, and a Surprising Truce
- Bishops with Balls
- Reasons We Watch
- Did You Know? Random (but Fun) Facts
- Camaraderie
- No Matter What!
- Did You Know? Who Outlasted All the Others?
- The Old Man and the Knee
