Soccer & America’s Slow Embrace of Internationalism
- Date:
- Thursday, November 17, 2022
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Wakelin Room
- Campus:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Author Talk
Join us for an evening with author Hal Phillips, who will discuss his new book, Generation Zero: Founding Fathers, Hidden Histories & The Making of Soccer in America. For 90 percent of the 20th century, Americans proved famously soccer-indifferent. Today they’ve fully embraced the world game. Generation Zero lays out a unified historical theory for "How We Got Here” … On the eve of World Cup 2022, Phillips will specifically discuss the peculiar insularity of U.S. sporting culture, how that socio-structural oddity delayed futbol’s acceptance here, and why it continues to shape us.
A journalist and media executive living in southern Maine, Phillips was raised in Wellesley, attended the dearly departed Hunnewell School and graduated from WHS, playing soccer all the while. Generation Zero is his first work of popular history.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Wellesley Free Libraries.