Host Tom McCabe is joined by Chris Bolsmann and George Kioussis, editors of Soccer Frontiers: The Global Game in the United States, 1863–1913 (2021, University of Tennessee Press).

Soccer Frontiers examines the early history of soccer in the United States, which has received relatively little scholarly attention. Soccer Frontiers helps to fill this gap and correct the widespread notion that soccer was unfamiliar in the United States before the late twentieth century.

A number of SASH members are contributors to the book.

Chris and George are both professors in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Northridge.

Chris is coauthor, with Dilwyn Porter, of English Gentlemen and World Soccer: Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game and coeditor of two books with Peter Alegi: Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space and South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid and Beyond.

George’s work has appeared in the Journal of Sport History, Sport in History, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Soccer & Society. He currently serves as an editor for Sport in History

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-wZPXJo7Sg&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=13&t=624s&pp=iAQB

For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/