Eight World Cups: My Journey through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer

George Vecsey gets it. Starting as a outsider, Vecsey followed and covered the beautiful game as it grew from a curiosity in America to a major player among the ESPNs of the world.  He saw the national team at its early stages, the small crowds and the unfamiliar faces and how the women got off to a better start when it came to hardware.  This book is a story of American soccer told from a global angle, i.e. how we