Adam Elder discusses NEW KIDS IN THE WORLD CUP with Max Bretos

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JoinBarnes & Noble - The Grove at Farmers Market on November 1, 2022, as we welcome award-winning journalist and editor Adam Elder to the store to discuss & sign NEW KIDS IN THE WORLD CUP, in conversation with Max Bretos.

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• SEATED Book Admission - $38.27 (Admission + one copy of NEW KIDS IN THE WORLD CUP): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One copy of NEW KIDS IN THE WORLD CUP (out 11/1/22).

• Admission to the event space for the discussion with Adam Elder.

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• Admission to the event space for the discussion with Adam Elder.
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ABOUT NEW KIDS IN THE WORLD CUP:

In 1990, though no one knew it then, a fearless group of players changed the sport of soccer in the United States forever. Young, bronzed, and mulleted, they were America’s finest athletes in a sport that America loved to hate. Even sportswriters rooted against them. Yet this team defied massive odds and qualified for the World Cup, making possible America’s current obsession with the world’s most popular game.

In this era, a U.S. Soccer Federation head coach had a better-paying day job as a black-tie restaurant waiter. Players earned $20 a day. The crowd at home games cheered for their opponent, and the fields were even mismarked. In Latin America the U.S. team bus had a machine gun turret mounted on the back, locals would sabotage their hotel, and in the stadiums spectators would rain coins, batteries, and plastic bags of urine down on the American players. The world considered the U.S. team to be total imposters—the Milli Vanilli of soccer. Yet on the biggest stage of all, in the 1990 World Cup, this undaunted American squad and their wise coach earned the adoration of Italy’s star players and their fans in a gladiator-like match in Rome’s deafening Stadio Olimpico.

From windswept soccer fields in the U.S. heartland to the CIA-infested cauldron of Central America and the Caribbean, behind the recently toppled Iron Curtain and into the great European soccer cathedrals, New Kids in the World Cup is the origin story of modern American soccer in a time when power ballads were inescapable and mainstream America was discovering hip-hop. It’s the true adventure of America’s most important soccer team, which made possible everything that’s come since—including America finally falling in love with soccer.

ABOUT ADAM ELDER:

Adam Elder is an award-winning journalist and editor whose soccer writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Newyorker.com, and Wired.com. A former managing editor of Triathlete and Competitor magazines, he has also written for Esquire, Air Mail, Vice,ESPN.com, Outside Online, and MEL Magazine.

ABOUT MAX BRETOS:

Max is one of the preeminent voices on the sport of soccer/football in North America, and for over 2 decades has been working almost exclusively on a National level. Beginning with his days as the lead broadcaster for Fox Soccer Channel, the first network dedicated to the sport in the U.S. & Canada. Over his time there he was the pxp voice for no less than 30 major Leagues and Tournaments on a daily basis. That includes the Premier League which saw its first real arrival in the marketplace at Fox.

During his time there, Max also worked for Major League Soccer doing weekly game for the League. Was a correspondent for the Soccer AM show on Sky Sports, which saw him cross paths with one Andy Goldstein.

Bretos would move on to ESPN in 2010, working for the Worldwide Leader in Sports for 9 years. He not only worked on major soccer projects, but on all major sporting events, leading to being a key anchor for the Company’s flagship show Sportscenter.

In 2018 Max took the job as lead broadcaster and content creator for LAFC of Major League Soccer. During his time the Club has quickly become one of the most prominent in the League, building an International footprint.

Recently, Bretos has also entered the fight game. He is main broadcaster for Hispanic fight promotion Combate Global. He has also called boxing for Golden Boy.