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'Soccer Made in St. Louis' traces city's impact on the sport

Over the years, there have been some great names associated with St. Louis soccer, both individuals like Charlie Colombo and Harry Keough and clubs like Scullin Steel and Stix, Baer and Fuller. But increasingly, those names are just names, and nothing more. They aren't connected to any flesh and blood. Just about everyone in St. Louis knows the city has had a major impact on soccer in America but just what that impact was, other than having a bunch of players on the U.S. team that beat England in the 1950 World Cup, gets increasingly hazy with each passing year.

"Soccer Made in St. Louis" addresses that problem and is an elegant solution. Author Dave Lange neatly spells out just how big soccer was in St. Louis, why it was and how it got there. The book explains who those players were and what they did in often meticulous detail. Even those who know a lot about St. Louis soccer history are bound to learn something from it.

The title is a takeoff on an old PBS series, "Soccer Made in Germany," which was one of the first programs that allowed Americans to see high-level European soccer. But St. Louis had a measurable product of its own that affected the game around the country, even if for years it played by different rules than its Eastern counterparts. St. Louis' soccer leaders went on to be leaders at the national level; its players represented the country at the international level. When the U.S. national team was floundering in qualifying for the 1958 World Cup, the U.S. Soccer Federation got rid of the whole squad and had St. Louis' Kutis club team represent them in the final two qualifying games. (There would be no St. Louis magic; the team lost both its remaining games and didn't qualify.)

Lange's research is extensive, both through interviews with soccer players and officials, and with archival material from the city's newspapers from a time when, before the NFL, NBA or NHL were in St. Louis, the sport received ample coverage. Books like this are obviously dependent on imagery, and photographs of early soccer teams are abundant, though, alas, static. It's a shame that the photography of the sport in its early days was limited to players posing for team photos. While Lange can write that the first recorded soccer game in St. Louis took place in 1875, no one seems to have taken a picture of a game until 1920.

Indoor Soccer Rules And Tips

If you have not yet heard of Futsal , it is time to become acquainted with the sport that is one of the fastest growing in the world. It is a variant of football that is played on a smaller pitch and typically indoors. And with the way the rules are pieced together and the stadiums the sport is played in, it is highly entertaining. Here are a few indoor football tips and rules. 5 a side soccer is controlled by a referee and each match consists of two equal periods of 18 minutes with either half extending to allow penalty kicks to be taken against a team that has committed more than five fouls or who have been awarded a penalty. As with other forms of soccer, some games can end in a draw while others cannot. For games that cannot such as finals, there is a one, three minute period which then leads to penalty shots to determine a winner if it is a draw after extended time.

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