 
A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America
Average Rating: 3.0 Total Reviews: 2
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 On: 2008-08-26
Remarkable and well-written story of Latino high school students who win the North Carolina state soccer championship. Let me underscore that its good sports writing, as well as reasonable social analysis. The author is both the coach of the team and a magazine reporter. White supremacists are sure not to like this book, as klansman David Duke himself denounced these kids. The story of "Los Jets" will win the hearts of all real Americans, just as they won the struggle against racism and poverty.
 On: 2008-04-29
Portions of the story, the lives of the students, their familys struggles, the choices they make in life, are meaningful and entertaining. A soccer enthusiast would probably enjoy the descriptions of the games, which are well written. The author starts out looking for discrimination and racism and finds it. He has an exaggerated chip on his shoulder, and his gratuitous bashing of business interests, political opponents with differing views on immigration matters, school administrators, opposing teams, turns a potentially great story of demographic change in rural North Carolina into a cheap and dull political tract.
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