Welcome to Soccer Made in St. Louis
This website includes information about Dave Lange’s books on St. Louis soccer. More importantly, this site promotes the rich history of the world’s most popular sport in St. Louis, America’s first soccer capital. Site features include today in St. Louis soccer history, a gallery of St. Louis soccer images, pages dedicated to each of Dave Lange’s soccer books, extra material on St. Louis soccer not in those books, and upcoming author presentations and book-signings. (More information on St. Louis soccer can be found from the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame. Information on the history of soccer in the United States can be found from the Society for American Soccer History.) Happy browsing!
New: St. Louis Soccer
An Illustrated Timeline
Available at St. Louis book-sellers and directly from Reedy Press.
“St. Louis Soccer: An Illustrated Timeline” chronicles almost 150 key moments in the 150-year history of the world’s most popular sport in America’s first soccer city. From the first publicized game in 1875 to the five St. Louis players who helped the United States stun England in the 1950 World Cup to the latest national champions of the 2020s, “St. Louis Soccer: An Illustrated Timeline” covers the events that made St. Louis America’s first soccer capital. Includes summaries, statistics and 190 images. Foreword by Carolyn Kindle, CEO/Part Owner, St. Louis CITY Soccer Club of Major League Soccer. The book is published by Reedy Press.
About The Author
Dave Lange has covered soccer for various media outlets since the 1970s. His stories have appeared in daily newspapers such as The St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; magazines such as Soccer America and The Sporting News; and websites such as MLSsoccer.com.
In addition to writing “St. Louis Soccer: An Illustrated Timeline,” “Soccer Made in St. Louis: A History of the Game in America’s First Soccer Capital,” and “Year One: St. Louis CITY SC,” he wrote or co-authored “Practice Makes Perfect: A Guide to Fun Training Sessions for 6–10 Year Olds,” “Cherishing Childhood, the First 100 Years of Community School,” “Webster University: A Century of Defining Moments” and “Taming Troubled Waters: Dr. Henry Givens Jr. and the Transformation of Harris-Stowe State University,” all from Reedy Press. He contributed a chapter to “Soccer Frontiers: The Global Game in the United States, 1863-1913” (University of Tennessee Press, 2021).
Lange was a head coach for 12 years at Busch Soccer Club/St. Louis Soccer Club and holds a USSF National D coaching license and a coaching certificate from the Royal Dutch Football Association. He retired from Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc., where his responsibilities including producing the annual report, managing employee communications at the company’s U.S. facilities, and starting the “Cardinals Magazine,” a monthly commercial publication for the St. Louis Cardinals. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communications as Senior Lecturer at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and Adjunct Full Professor at Webster University. He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2024 for his work in soccer media. He serves on the board of directors of the Society for American Soccer History.