A History of Soccer
Bill Murray| Pub Date: | 1998 |
| Pages: | 256 pages |
The well-known Australian sports historian Bill Murray shows in this readable history how soccer has become the world's most popular sport. A volume in the series Illinois History of Sports, edited by Benjamin G. Rader and Randy Roberts
"Bill Murray has accomplished the seemingly impossible. He has masterfully rendered the complexities of soccer's history into a single vividly written story."--Benjamin Rader, author of Baseball: A History of America's Game
"Spiced with colorful evidence and stories. . . . The World's Game is a very interesting book packed with arresting detail."--James Walvin, author of The People's Game: The History of Football Revisited
"Well researched . . . readable, factual and informative."--John Weir, author of The Absolute Game
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