The long game U.S. men's soccer and its savage, four-decade journey to the top, or thereabouts
"The gripping account of the U.S. men's national soccer team's winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026"-- Provided by publisher.
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New York, NY :
Viking,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Author's note
- Prologue
- Part I: The First World Cups, 1930-1982. At the first world cup
- Poison to the game
- Dark decades
- Part II: The Reawakening, 1983-1989. Team America
- A series of miracles
- Part III: Back at the World Cup, 1990-1994. Galumphing, cornfed college boys
- Bora Ball
- A nation changed
- Striving, 1995-2002. The boys of Bradenton
- Nightmare at the chateau
- Our way
- Part IV: Stagnation and Ambition, 2003-2014. Not much of a world cup
- The fruits of imperialism
- The Bradley competency
- Virality
- The great leap forward
- Launch
- Part VI: Rebuilding, 2015-2021. The crash
- The brotherhood
- Born in the USA
- Part VII: A Golden Generation, Maybe, 2022-2024. Rehearsal
- The Reyna brouhaha
- The reset
- Epilogue.
