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Playing soccer for their country is the greatest ambition a black athlete can have. That is anywhere except the United States where soccer is virtually ignored by black athletes and the black community. It's a subject everyone knows about but has never been discussed or examined in detail.
Black People Don't Play Soccer? Unlocking American Soccer's Secret Weapon is the first book to take a comprehensive look into soccer's struggle to catch on in America and more specifically, the black community. BPDPS takes a hard look at how history, the media's anti soccer propaganda, and the ineptitude of soccer's leadership combined for the perfect storm denying soccer a place among America's sports elite.
America loves winners and soccer's quest for respectibility depends on its men's teams becoming competitive on the world stage. The US has produced a generation of quality professional players that now earn their living playing in England, Spain, France, Scotland, and dozens of other foreign countries. Major League Soccer has outlasted the old North American Soccer League where Pele and other international stars sowed the seeds of a soccer revolution.
Soccer has arguably never been more popular and profitable than today but it still lacks the cultural punch and buzz to attract the best athletes. Many of the best athletes who could transform US Soccer from a "mid-major" to a world soccer player are African-Americans like Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd, and Chad Johnson who played soccer early in their careers before turning to basketball and football.
I wrote Black People Don't Play Soccer? Unlocking American Soccer's Secret Weapon to tell some of the untold stories of the triumphs and struggles of America's black soccer players and their soccer playing brothers of African descent around the world. As crazy as it sounds, I hope somewhere out there this book might inspire a few special athletes to become US Soccer's answer to Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan and one day lead the United States to bring home the greatest prize in sports . . .the World Cup.
Robert Woodard
Black People Don't Play Soccer? Unlocking American Soccer's Secret Weapon is the first book to take a comprehensive look into soccer's struggle to catch on in America and more specifically, the black community. BPDPS takes a hard look at how history, the media's anti soccer propaganda, and the ineptitude of soccer's leadership combined for the perfect storm denying soccer a place among America's sports elite.
America loves winners and soccer's quest for respectibility depends on its men's teams becoming competitive on the world stage. The US has produced a generation of quality professional players that now earn their living playing in England, Spain, France, Scotland, and dozens of other foreign countries. Major League Soccer has outlasted the old North American Soccer League where Pele and other international stars sowed the seeds of a soccer revolution.
Soccer has arguably never been more popular and profitable than today but it still lacks the cultural punch and buzz to attract the best athletes. Many of the best athletes who could transform US Soccer from a "mid-major" to a world soccer player are African-Americans like Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd, and Chad Johnson who played soccer early in their careers before turning to basketball and football.
I wrote Black People Don't Play Soccer? Unlocking American Soccer's Secret Weapon to tell some of the untold stories of the triumphs and struggles of America's black soccer players and their soccer playing brothers of African descent around the world. As crazy as it sounds, I hope somewhere out there this book might inspire a few special athletes to become US Soccer's answer to Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan and one day lead the United States to bring home the greatest prize in sports . . .the World Cup.
Robert Woodard
