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Growing the Global Game at the Grassroots Youth and Pro Soccer Partnerships in New York Play the Game 2011 Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln David Kilpatrick, PhD Associate Professor Humanities Department School of Liberal Arts Mercy College, NY

NASL (1968-1984); MLS (1996-present)

ADFH United/AYSO Region 324

Local Boys: Ramos, Meola & Reyna

Soccer & American Exceptionalism “DESPITE HEROIC EFFORTS of soccer moms, suburban liberals, and World Cup hype, soccer will never catch on as a big time sport in America. No game in which actually scoring goals is of such little importance could possibly occupy the attention of average Americans. Our country has yet to succumb to the nihilism, existentialism, and anomie that have overtaken Europe. A game about nothing, in which scoring is purely incidental, holds scant interest for Americans who still believe the world makes sense, that life has a larger meaning and structure, that being is not an end in itself, being qua being. ” (Cannon and Lessner)

“Don’t waste your time on soccer young man; it’s a game for Commie pansies ” - Dick Young

A New New York Icon?

The Birth of the Cosmos • “Soccer is the one great international sport and is America’s fastest growing sport. […] It has crossed more borders and broken down more barriers than any activity other than the very act of living itself” • “We wouldn’t ask you to come to us until we’d come to you” – Clive Toye

Big Time

Glory Days Beckenbauer, Pelé & Chinaglia

Pelé Says Goodbye to 75,646 at Giants Stadium

World Cup 94 & MLS

NY/NJ MetroStars

Red Bull New York

Red Bull Arena 2010

Cosmos Reborn?

“Tailored by Umbro ”?

RBNY & ADFH United

Works Cited • Cannon, Frank and Richard Lessner . “Nil, Nil.” The Weekly Standard . 23 June 2006. <http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/384qgmke.asp> • Kilpatrick, David. “Raising Bulls: A Look at Red Bull’s Youth Development Program.” 101 . 4 (December 2009). • ---. Soccer Off-Broadway . In progress. Haworth, NJ: St. Johann Press, 2012. • Markovits, Andrei S. and Steven L. Hellerman. Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism . Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2001. • Newsham, Gavin. Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos . New York: Grove, 2006. • Sandomir , Richard. “ MetroStars Struggle to Get a Footing.” New York Times . 13 August 1999. <http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/13/sports/soccer-metrostars-struggle-get-footing-city- where-success-counts-team-losing.html> • Toye, Clive. A Kick in the Grass . Haworth, NJ: St. Johann Press, 2006. • ---. Personal interview. 8 April 2011. • Wangerin, David. Distant Corners: American Soccer’s History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes . Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2011.

Contact David Kilpatrick, PhD Associate Professor of English Literature and Philosophy Mercy College Dobbs Ferry, NY President/Regional Commissioner ADFH United/AYSO Region 324 socceroffbroadway@gmail.com www.socceroffbroadway.blogspot.com