'Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism'

Why is the "world's game" not America's game, and will that ever change? That was the puzzle for Andrei S. Markovits, a European-born professor of politics in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Michigan.

Years of interest grew into Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (Princeton University Press), written with Steven L. Hellerman, a sportswriter and a doctoral candidate at the Claremont Graduate University's School of Politics and

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