You’re Playing the World Cup Where?

Gary Hopkins

Chapter Chapter 1 in Star-Spangled Soccer, 2010, pp 6-26 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It hardly caused a ripple in the American public psyche on 4 July 1988 when the announcement was made that the USA was to host the 1994 World Cup. Media coverage was tepid and sparse and American sports fans were uncaring and oblivious. Today’s news, tomorrow’s fish and chip paper as they say in England. To those that did care, i.e. the rest of the world, it was nothing more than a corporate sell out: FIFA had lost its mind … how could it be hosted in the States? … what did they know about “Football”? … it’s all about money, a farce, a joke, but I suppose at least a joke with benefits … we get to go to Disneyland and Las Vegas.

Keywords: National Team; National Hockey League; Corporate Sell; Empire State Building; Professional League (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-27804-2_2

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