Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

1997; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 21; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/019372397021003005

1552-7638

Fernando Delgado,

Media Studies and Communication

After more than a decade, a full-time, professional outdoor soccer league—Major League Soccer (MLS)—has returned to the United States. Following the staging of a highly successful World Cup in 1994, soccer supporters in the United States have the opportunity to demonstrate that the game can indeed take its place among the big four of U.S. team sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey). There are many obstacles—economic, historical, sociocultural, and ideological—to this goal. This essay will explore the sporting and social tensions that the MLS faces and that its presence may provoke.