Fergus Kelly * Daily Express * A fantastic book! - Danny Kelly * Talksport Radio * A compendious but vividly entertaining history of the League. Times Literary Supplement A hugely entertaining account of the north American Soccer League in its 1970s heyday. Written with a raffish exuberance worthy of its subject. 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 reveals in all its glory the colour and chaos of the world's first truly international league. It experimented with rules and innovations that upset purists, and liberated players from the negative tactics of the muddy, hooligan-blighted grounds of Europe. ff, Best, Beckenbauer and the mercurial Rodney Marsh to play football as it was meant to be played - without inhibition, to please the fans. More than just Pele and the New York Cosmos, it lured the biggest names of the world game like Cruy. It was football as performance, played by men with a bent for flair, hair and glamour. The North American Soccer League - at its peak in the late 1970s - was way ahead of its time. Rock 'n' Roll Soccer: The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League
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