EP 3: Beau Dure discusses his book ”2012: The Year that Saved Women’s Soccer” (August 2020)

Tom McCabe hosts a Book Talk with Beau Dure, author of 2012: The Year that Saved Women’s Soccer (2020). Dure discusses the state of women’s soccer in what he calls the “dark ages” of the early 2000s, and how the successful 2012 NWSL season anchored professional women’s soccer in the American soccersphere.

Dure has covered women’s soccer throughout his nearly 30-year journalism career, where he has written for the USA TODAY, The Guardian, FourFourTwo, and ESPN. A SASH member, Dure has been an enthusiastic supporter of documenting and sharing American soccer stories.

Podcast produced by Brian Quarstad.

Music created by LiteSaturation and found at Pixabay.

View the video of the session at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI78fiWCbo0&list=PLF9oL3yRaMyyYqsS1Qqj6XxUV8RU6p4tC&index=1&t=6s

For more US soccer history, visit the SASH website at https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/