Watch Ian Plenderleith introduce Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer

Posted on 2014/07/01 , tagged as

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The USA national team will tonight line up against Belgium in Brazil to compete for a place in the World Cup quarter finals. They are on the brink of equalling their best ever World Cup showing and the sport’s popularity has soared state-side as result. Not since Pelé was strutting his stuff for the Cosmos has ‘soccer’ been such a hot topic, so what better time to indulge in some NASL nostalgia.

Watch the video below of Ian Plenderleith, author of upcoming Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer: The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League, introduce his book. Rock ’n’ Roll Soccer reveals in all its glory the colour and chaos of the world’s first truly international league. How it sold itself in a continent unfamiliar with soccer, and how it crashed back down to earth like a rock star’s private jet, bankrupt but laughing all the way.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Soccer by Ian Plenderleith, with a Foreword by Rodney Marsh, will be available everywhere books are sold from 4th September. Go here to read more about it.