Acknowledgements

Students who enrolled in the Soccer: Local Stories, Global History including Jonathan Check, Brandon Delgado, Alejandro Del Valle, Carlos Flores, Rickey Johnson, John Lilly, N’Deye Ndiaye, Karina Rivera, Kasey Stovall, Emily Tejada, Tucker Thompson and Nicole Williamson

The Honors College staff and faculty who made the class possible: Heather Galloway, Diann Mccabe, Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Ron Haas, and Robbie Longoria.

The Center for the Studies of the Southwest community including Tammy Gonzales, Claudia Cardona, Will Jensen, Cesar Limon, Diana Harrell, Frank de la Teja, and Adam Clark

Colleagues who offered constructive feedback and supportive remarks including Paul Hart, Nancy Berlage, Jessica Pliley, Dwight Watson, Mary Brennan, Angela Murphy, Jose Carlos de la Puente, Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Joaquin Rivaya Martinez, Sergio Martinez and Lynn Denton

People who opened their teams and shared their stories with us, including Diana Harrell, Frank Miller, Rudy Herrera, Tilly Crosby, Kirsha Haverlah, Felipe Posada, Martin Meraz, Flyree McGee, Angela Moloch, Michael Kahoe, Ray Voith, and Adam Key.

Friends and scholars who opened up the world of sport to this state-archives minded social historian including Adrian Burgos, jr., Frank Guridy, Jennifer Wilks, Adriana Novoa, Cherise Smith, Brian Bremen, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Luis Alvarez, Laurent Dubois, Katherine Ott, Steve Velasquez, Elise Edwards, Ben Carrington, Ben Chappell, Luis Carcamo Huechante and Jose Alamillo. Special thanks to Joshua Nadel who interrupted his fullbright time in Greece to discuss his marvelous book Futbol: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America with my Honors College students.

Eduardo Galeano opened up Latin America to me his Open Veins of Latin America. His book, Futbol en Sol y Sombra demonstrated how to focus on the joy and contradictions of commodified play.

Carlos Flores, who took on this journey for the summer of 2018.

Adam Clark, who helped ground the ambitions of the project in the requirements of the web-portal.

My family, who still support my persistent failures at midfield, especially Cary Cordova, Feliciano Mckiernan-Cordova, Aleyda Gonzalez Mckiernan, Eileen Mckiernan Gonzalez, and Larry Mckiernan-Gonzalez.