Beau Dure: 3 books

All sports require resilience and perseverance. Women's soccer requires more than most. Two U.S. leagues have disappeared in the past decade. Players have put in countless hours of work for limited opportunities. For this book, veteran women's soccer writer Beau Dure tracked the Washington Spirit...

Soccer is a fun, healthy activity for children. It's also a battleground for adults who want to take the sport several different directions. Is youth soccer a breeding ground to grow the USA's talent pool for future World Cup wins? If so, should we be herding talented players into elite groups...

All over the world, soccer is known as “the Beautiful Game” and is the most popular sport. But in the United States, professional soccer still has a hard time catching on.It has had some successes here. The American Soccer League of the 1920s, Pélé and other international stars in the North American...