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Long-Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer Hardcover – May 1, 2010
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- Print length322 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPOTOMAC BOOKS
- Publication dateMay 1, 2010
- Dimensions6.38 x 1.14 x 9.24 inches
- ISBN-101597975095
- ISBN-13978-1597975094
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Customers find the book highly entertaining and readable. They appreciate the clearer context for the creation of the league and good background information. Readers also enjoy the lengthy quotes from people on the inside.
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Customers find the book highly entertaining for a new fan of MLS.
"This was a highly entertaining read for a relatively new fan of MLS (been a fan about 3 years) - so the history of the league was a new revelation..." Read more
"Fun read about a period of American soccer history that is becoming increasingly forgotten as we live through this golden age of the soccer boom." Read more
"A great read for MLS fans and BigSoccer junkies...." Read more
Customers find the book provides a clearer context for the creation of the league than anything they have read. They say it fills that void in great detail and provides good background information on what's going on.
"...I was wrong to be apprehensive. This book provided a clearer context for the creation of the league than anything I have ever read previously and it..." Read more
"...I think it's a good mix of stats and how things worked and good back ground info on things going on...." Read more
"...This book fills that void in great detail...." Read more
Customers find the book well-written and readable. They also appreciate the lengthy quotes from people inside the book.
"This is a very well-written and highly readable history of MLS...." Read more
"...I also enjoyed the lengthy quotes from people on the inside...." Read more
"Terrific history of the League. Very well written and appears to have inside knowledge of behind closed doors dealings. Strongly recommended...." Read more
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Beau is a great chronicler of soccer in the United States and his work on Twitter (@duresport,) on his website sportsmyriad.com, and on ESPNW is worth following. I await the (inevitable?) follow-up on the history of women's pro soccer leagues in the USA.
I very much enjoyed the exploration of the origins of single-entity concept, and the descriptions of competing visions offered for the league in the beginning. I also enjoyed the lengthy quotes from people on the inside.
Nonetheless, the book doesn't delve deep enough into the interesting philosophical issues behind the origins of the league. Instead, significant portions of each chapter are devoted to summaries of who beat who in the playoffs in a given year, who scored a goal in this game, who was sent off in that game, etc. These summaries are like Cliffs Notes for someone interviewing for a job with MLS and trying to learn just enough to fake their way through, but there is no narrative tension in these summaries. The author either needs to build these narratives more convincingly or just leave them out.
In summary, given the dearth of books out there on the subject, this one works for now. But surely it can be improved upon. I think the author himself might even be the one do it, retrenching the book by building more muscle on the business core and losing the fat mentioned above.
I am a fan of the league, and of sports non-fiction, but this book did not impress too much. It had all the information I expected, but fell short of being a good read. For casual US soccer fans wondering about MLS, I be much more likely to recommend Grant Wahl's "Beckham Experiment", which gives you all the background on MLS you really need, plus offers great insight into how the league operates, and includes profiles of Landon Donovan, Alexi Lalas, Ruud Gullit, Bruce Arena, and many every-day players from the 2007/8 Galaxy team.

