Long-Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer By Beau Dure
by Kejsare on Feb 2, 2012 12:09 AM PST
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PrintAs I was researching for an upcoming massive FanPost (I'm above 1700 2300 3000 words now) that only Ryan Gates knows about I found out that a preview for Beau Dure's 2010 book on MLS is on Google Books.
http://books.google.com/books?id=z3VfWOB30jkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
There are so few books that have been penned on MLS. Got an afternoon or two to commit to reading? Take a look at this book.
Alright guys, I don't believe I have to say this but, just in case, please do not submit anything racist, homophobic, sexist or otherwise not appropriate for even the younger Timbers fans.
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I've always wanted to pen a book on MLS
Guess somebody beat me to it!
RCTID - Stumptown Footy
Moderator of /r/MLS
Could go the route of Grant Wahl and talk about a specific player, event (Beckham)
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
That's a possibility...
Although the likelihood I was ever actually going to write a book was fairly small. It’s always been one of those things I’ve wanted to do though.
RCTID - Stumptown Footy
Moderator of /r/MLS
Always need more mls books
My only disappointment about Dure’s book was its poor distribution (I.e. not on bookstore shelves, libraries etc.). It was a very enjoyable read covering things I either missed out entirely on or weren’t very well covered. That said there’s plenty to be written about the league. Sadly I was also reminded of the cringe inducing Sierra Mist pimping in game promotions,
SPOILERS
Some of the best parts were the farce of Lothar Mattheus with the then MetroStars—on Becks worst days he was never the flat out disaster the former German international was! The 2001 player lawsuit seeking to end the single-entity MLS structure (curiously fund by the nfl). MLS buying and redistributing World Cup tv rights in order to get mls AirPlay.
NFLPA funded the suits because
They wanted to see it as a test case for what could happen in the NFL and to help their poor unionized brethren.
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
Hmm let me rephrase that
Used as a bargaining chip to get better wages. Not to destroy a single entity.
Jag kom, jag såg, erövrade jag.
However players did file a class-action vs. the NFL
Arguing that they were in fact a single entity and trying to bring anti-monopoly charges against the NFL.
Notice this was settled once a new CBA was agreed upon in principle though…
Blazers win!
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