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Is the United States Still Offside?
A quarter-century ago, the renowned political scientist [and now Great Game Lab Fellow] Andrei Markovits co-authored an influential book, Offside: Soccer & American Exceptionalism, that extended the notion of American exceptionalism to the sports Americans play and follow. Now, as the United States is on the verge of co-hosting a FIFA men’s World Cup and America’s homegrown sports are also growing their overseas followings, we have to ask: can we still say the United States is “offside”?
