Fernando Delgado’s research while affiliated with Arizona State University and other places

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Major League Soccer: The return of the foreign sport
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August 1997

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Journal of Sport and Social Issues

Fernando Delgado

After more than a decade, a full-time, professional outdoor soccer league—Major League Soccer (MLS)—has returned to the United States. Following the staging of a highly successful World Cup in 1994, soccer supporters in the United States have the opportunity to demonstrate that the game can indeed take its place among the big four of U.S. team sports (baseball, basketball, football, and hockey). There are many obstacles—economic, historical, sociocultural, and ideological—to this goal. This essay will explore the sporting and social tensions that the MLS faces and that its presence may provoke.

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... In addition to the increase in foreign-born punters at the collegiate and professional level, the act of punting itself is visually similar to kicking motions found in Australian football, rugby, and soccer. Historically, these foreign sports have faced resistance in U.S. coverage, which is integral for their broader acceptance among the U.S. population (Delgado, 1997;Markovits, 1990). Noting the importance of media coverage to the acceptance of nonnormative sports and athletes, this study used content analysis to understand how Australian college punters are covered in U.S. media. ...

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“They Come From the Land Down Under and Thankfully So”: Framing of Australian Punters in College Football
Major League Soccer: The return of the foreign sport
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  • August 1997

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

Fernando Delgado