MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Author:
- Fernando DelgadoFDFernando Delgado
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Sport and Social Issues
- Vol. 21 (3) , 285-297
Abstract
After more than a decade, a full-time, professional outdoor soccer league—Major League Soccer (MLS)—has returned to the United States. Following the staging of a highly successful World Cup in 1994, soccer supporters in the United States have the opportunity to demonstrate that the game can indeed take its place among the big four of U.S. team sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey). There are many obstacles—economic, historical, sociocultural, and ideological—to this goal. This essay will explore the sporting and social tensions that the MLS faces and that its presence may provoke.Keywords
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