Hal Phillips is an author, journalist, and media executive based in southern Maine. A daily newspaper and magazine editor until 2001, Phillips has since contributed feature content to ESPN FC, Sports Illustrated, Soccer 365.com, GOLF Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Golf Digest China, Portland Press Herald, and dozens of other outlets. He is the author of Generation Zero: Founding Fathers, Hidden Histories, and the Making of Soccer in America. He was founder and host of the Unsightly American Soccer Podcast from 2009 to 2013 and is a former semi-professional soccer player.

• Foreword, by Seamus MalinAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Rivalries Don’t Just HappenChapter 2: Stuck With Each Other: Rivalry as CodependenceChapter 3: A Friendly Meditation: Fear, Loathing & Argie Worship in The GDLChapter 4: Of Moles & Molé: How Mexico Seized Unlikely Control of the North American DerbyChapter 5: Envy & Scorn in the BorderlandsChapter 6: Soccer Made in America (or “How to Wander in the Footballing Desert for a Century”)Chapter 7: The 1990s Changed Everything: The Power & Politics of Identity & MythChapter 8: Veni. Vici. Venue. Where Tribe, Home Ground & Hashtags CollideChapter 9: The Accidental Confederation: How Soccer’s Best, Brightest & Richest have Come to Covet CONCACAFChapter 10: The Unlikely, Once-Marginalized Custodians of a Rivalry Most FierceBibliographyNotesIndexAbout the Author

I cannot find the proper words of praise and delight that I felt having read in one fell swoop Hal Phillips’s magisterial work on the U.S.-Mexico rivalry in soccer. This is not only a masterpiece in the cultural sociology of rivalries in sports and beyond, but it also features a nuanced command of all things soccer (and sports) deeply ensconced in the larger histories of Mexico and the United States with sumptuous detours into Britain, the Continent, and Latin America. This is a remarkable book!

Hal Phillips is an author, journalist, and media executive based in southern Maine. A daily newspaper and magazine editor until 2001, Phillips has since contributed feature content to ESPN FC, Sports Illustrated, Soccer 365.com, GOLF Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Golf Digest China, Portland Press Herald, and dozens of other outlets. He is the author of Generation Zero: Founding Fathers, Hidden Histories, and the Making of Soccer in America. He was founder and host of the Unsightly American Soccer Podcast from 2009 to 2013 and is a former semi-professional soccer player.

• Foreword, by Seamus MalinAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Rivalries Don’t Just HappenChapter 2: Stuck With Each Other: Rivalry as CodependenceChapter 3: A Friendly Meditation: Fear, Loathing & Argie Worship in The GDLChapter 4: Of Moles & Molé: How Mexico Seized Unlikely Control of the North American DerbyChapter 5: Envy & Scorn in the BorderlandsChapter 6: Soccer Made in America (or “How to Wander in the Footballing Desert for a Century”)Chapter 7: The 1990s Changed Everything: The Power & Politics of Identity & MythChapter 8: Veni. Vici. Venue. Where Tribe, Home Ground & Hashtags CollideChapter 9: The Accidental Confederation: How Soccer’s Best, Brightest & Richest have Come to Covet CONCACAFChapter 10: The Unlikely, Once-Marginalized Custodians of a Rivalry Most FierceBibliographyNotesIndexAbout the Author

I cannot find the proper words of praise and delight that I felt having read in one fell swoop Hal Phillips’s magisterial work on the U.S.-Mexico rivalry in soccer. This is not only a masterpiece in the cultural sociology of rivalries in sports and beyond, but it also features a nuanced command of all things soccer (and sports) deeply ensconced in the larger histories of Mexico and the United States with sumptuous detours into Britain, the Continent, and Latin America. This is a remarkable book!

Hal Phillips is an author, journalist, and media executive based in southern Maine. A daily newspaper and magazine editor until 2001, Phillips has since contributed feature content to ESPN FC, Sports Illustrated, Soccer 365.com, GOLF Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Golf Digest China, Portland Press Herald, and dozens of other outlets. He is the author of Generation Zero: Founding Fathers, Hidden Histories, and the Making of Soccer in America. He was founder and host of the Unsightly American Soccer Podcast from 2009 to 2013 and is a former semi-professional soccer player.

• Foreword, by Seamus MalinAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Rivalries Don’t Just HappenChapter 2: Stuck With Each Other: Rivalry as CodependenceChapter 3: A Friendly Meditation: Fear, Loathing & Argie Worship in The GDLChapter 4: Of Moles & Molé: How Mexico Seized Unlikely Control of the North American DerbyChapter 5: Envy & Scorn in the BorderlandsChapter 6: Soccer Made in America (or “How to Wander in the Footballing Desert for a Century”)Chapter 7: The 1990s Changed Everything: The Power & Politics of Identity & MythChapter 8: Veni. Vici. Venue. Where Tribe, Home Ground & Hashtags CollideChapter 9: The Accidental Confederation: How Soccer’s Best, Brightest & Richest have Come to Covet CONCACAFChapter 10: The Unlikely, Once-Marginalized Custodians of a Rivalry Most FierceBibliographyNotesIndexAbout the Author

I cannot find the proper words of praise and delight that I felt having read in one fell swoop Hal Phillips’s magisterial work on the U.S.-Mexico rivalry in soccer. This is not only a masterpiece in the cultural sociology of rivalries in sports and beyond, but it also features a nuanced command of all things soccer (and sports) deeply ensconced in the larger histories of Mexico and the United States with sumptuous detours into Britain, the Continent, and Latin America. This is a remarkable book!