Listen Up, U.S. soccer fans: Generation Zero now Available via Audio Book
The audio version of Generation Zero, the best-selling U.S. soccer history from author Hal Phillips, is now available via Amazon, alongside its print and eBook editions. Published by Dickinson-Moses Press and released in July 2022, Generation Zero: Founding Fathers, Hidden Histories & The Making of Soccer in America details the game’s unlikely modern ascent, during the 1970s and ‘80s, after a century of false starts. Featuring period imagery from USMNT photographer Jon van Woerden, GZ is the definitive account of fútbol’s long-elusive mainstreaming in the [...]
England May Have Wrexham AFC (Est. 1864) … We Have the Baltimore Blast
Americans have developed a soft spot for expertly produced, soccer-centric docuseries and “Welcome to Wrexham,” in particular, has engendered a specific appreciation for futbol clubs older than dirt. As a sporting culture, we have traditionally struggled to give a fig about this concept. The Chicago Bears, for example, don’t make a big deal about having been established in [...]
GZ Audio Book Now Available!
DOWN ON PAPER PRODUCTS? NO TIME TO READ? NO PROBLEM! LISTEN TO GENERATION ZERO — OR OPT FOR THE E-BOOK
The print, audio and eBook versions of Generation Zero are all available right now! Click here to purchase.
Book of a
lifetime!“It’s taken my entire lifetime for soccer in this country to move from obscurity to the status of big time sport, and over those decades, Phillips was the journalist I knew who stuck it out and followed that fascinating ascent. Now he is ready to share the story with sports fans everywhere.”
‘Masterly’
“Hal Phillips has done a masterly job of celebrating the players and ’80s era that set the foundation for today’s American soccer culture. He has produced a valuable history of the players, who despite no pro league and myriad frustrations kept the game alive, and he pulls back the curtains on how they came together to create a national team that today ranks among the world’s most noteworthy.”