Zander Hollander 1978 The Complete Handbook of Pro Soccer

This scarce book is the de-facto bible of the original North American Soccer League (NASL).

Author Colin Jose has produced the definitive story of the NASL. His painstaking research has brought to light the statistical side of the league, tracing each game’s results, scorers and team line-ups, and gives, for the first time, the NASL careers of those footballers—Europeans, South Americans, Africans and native-born North Americans—who played for each franchise. He also examines the story of soccer in North America before and after the NASL and analyses why the game had never taken a real hold on a population which takes its sports so seriously.