Touchdown in Europe: How American Football Came to the Old Continent - Softcover

Foglio, Massimo

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9781508898122: Touchdown in Europe: How American Football Came to the Old Continent
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ISBN 10: 150889812X ISBN 13: 9781508898122
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

When you talk about football in Europe, everybody thinks you mean soccer. American football is still a developing sport in Europe, despite having a centennial history behind it. Packed with game scores and interesting anecdotes, “Touchdown in Europe”, by Massimo Foglio and Mark L. Ford, tells the story of the first 85 years of American football in Europe from the very beginning : Thanksgiving Day, 1897, near Paris, France, when the gridiron game made its first appearance. During the 20th century there had been a few attempts to introduce Europeans to the game. For the most part, though, football had been confined inside American military bases, especially after World War Two, when American presence on European soil was at its greatest number. Finally, gridiron football in Europe developed as a local sport, thanks to some individuals in Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy and Norway in the late 1970s, and now the game is played throughout the entire continent with a multitude of championship, leagues, teams and competition. “Touchdown in Europe” isn't about the present status of the game in Europe. Instead, it's the little-known story of the first 80 years of trying to introduce the sport as something to be organized by, played by, and enjoyed by Europeans. At 276 pages, it's filled with stories and information never before published before in book form.

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About the Author

Massimo Foglio works in IT in Torino, Italy. Since 1980 he has covered almost every position in italian football: player, coach, team and league executive, statistician. He is a member of the Professional Football Researchers Association since 1996.
Mark L. Ford is a lawyer in Harlan, Kentucky, and an author of books and magazine articles about the history of football. He is a former president of the Professional Football Researchers Association.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
150889812X
ISBN 13 
9781508898122
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
277
Editor
Ford Mark L.
Rating
  • 3.73 out of 5 stars
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