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u/zzz42 · 85 pointsr/politics

People love to hate on the MLS, and it's funny a lot of the time, but it has actually come a long way. Give it a chance people!

This book really changed my opinion on the entire sport, as an American who is flooded with football, basketball, and baseball. It's a wonderful read. You'll thank me later. :)

u/TheBored23 · 21 pointsr/MLS

> A third group, headed by Chicago marketing executive Jim Paglia, envisioned a league tied to a series of new stadiums constructed adjacent to new shopping malls.

There's a lot more about this group in Beau Dure's Long-Range Goals. Paglia had some pretty radical ideas about changing the rules of soccer, with color-coded uniforms based on positions, larger goals, more points for goals from further away...

u/rnoboa · 16 pointsr/MLS

He also wrote the only history of MLS to date. People should read it.

u/njndirish · 7 pointsr/MLS

Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer -- The book for the novice soccer fan. It explains how one can get caught up in the sport even if they deride it or have no history with it. Amazon: After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and the deluge of in-your-face PR that saturated the NFL, the NBA, and MLB. Then in 2006, he moved to London and discovered a new and baffling world—the renowned Premiership soccer league. Culpepper pledged his loyalty to Portsmouth, a gutsy, small-market team at the bottom of the standings. As he puts it, “It was like childhood, with beer.”

The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer -- Be warned this book can be mistaken as a blunt object. One of the most global histories I've ever read. If you like information about how world soccer got to where it is now, I highly recommend this book. Amazon: In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.

Long-Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer -- Amazon: From the league’s formation in 1993 to the David Beckham era, this book reveals all the action on and off the pitch: the politics, the lawsuits, the management of its teams, and the savvy business deals that helped MLS rebound. It also revels in the big personalities of its stars, the grace of its utility players, and the obstacles the league faces in meeting its long-range goals.

Corner Offices & Corner Kicks -- Amazon: The Bethlehem Steel soccer team of 1907-30 and the New York Cosmos of 1971-85 were very much alike in a number of ways beyond their status as the two greatest soccer teams the United States has ever produced. The most important way that they are alike is that both were owned by major corporations, which is the exception in professional sports, and both experienced the benefits and the pitfalls of corporate ownership. Here are the stories of these two teams, and in particular the roller-coaster rides that their ownership situations sent them on.

u/LDGoals · 5 pointsr/MLS

If you're interested in a history of how MLS formed here in the US and you're like me and enjoy reading about soccer, I recommend Dure's Long-Range Goals.

u/tblazrdude · 3 pointsr/MLS

Long Range Goals is also an excellent recap of why MLS is set up the way it is and the US Soccer landscape in the mid 1990s. Then the book summarizes the first several seasons. My favorite parts of the book surrounded the initial birth of the league and the MLS players union lawsuit that reinforced MLS' single-entity structure.

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1597975095

u/omerida · 2 pointsr/MLS

I believe the match went ahead because it had a national TV time slot on ABC. If they postponed it, they could lose the slot (Source: Long Range Goals)

u/tk423 · 1 pointr/soccer

The Movie "Once in a lifetime" is a good place to start.

http://www.dailysoccerfix.com/2012/1/10/2696541/at-the-10-year-anniversary-of-very-dark-mls-days

http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/nasl/naslhist.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Soccer_League <- the current problems with NASL and USL which make any discussion of relegation silly at this point.
Another article on the current mess that the second division/third division is: http://blog.oregonlive.com/timbers/2010/10/the_usl_and_nasl_saga_timbers.html


http://www.ussoccerplayers.com/ussoccerplayers/nasl-the-last-commissione.html <- The last years of the first NASL

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Range-Goals-Success-League-Soccer/dp/1597975095

and a quote from Don Garber " I don’t think the ghost of the NASL will ever leave the offices of Major League Soccer. It always sort of seems to hang above the sport, and I think it will for the next number of years,"

u/pvdfan · 1 pointr/baseball

You mentioned all sports so I have four on soccer in the US. Long-Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer tells the story of the first 14-15 years of MLS. Star-Spangled Soccer: The Selling, Marketing and Management of Soccer in the USA is a business based book, but covers the utter insanity of soccer in the US from the the announcement of the US getting the World Cup until the book was published. Soccer in a Football World is a must read for the entire history of the sport from it's boom in the 1920's until mid-2000s. Finally, we have The Beckham Experiment which covers the story of David Beckham coming to the US and what followed. If I had to pick one of the bunch, go with Soccer in a Football World.

u/my_lucid_nightmare · 1 pointr/MLS

If you are a big picture "how we got here" reader, this is pretty good:

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Range-Goals-Success-League-Soccer/dp/1597975095/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_z

I also recommend Inverting the Pyramid which someone else did too.