Kicking Off Around The World (eBook)

55 Stories From When Soccer Met Politics

Ramon Usall (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
316 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
9780745350431 (ISBN)

Infos

A tour-de-force that touches on how soccer is always mixed up with politics in every corner of the globe Mehreen Khan, The Times and co-host of the Humans & Heroes soccer podcastAn absolute must for anybody interested in the history of soccer clubs. It not only provides riveting stories, it also reveals surprises about the politics of soccer Stephen Ortega, Global Sports Initiative, Harvard UniversityThink you know everything about soccer?Which soccer match triggered a war? How did the beautiful game push back against the tyranny of dictatorship, and usher another into power? Kicking Off Around the World includes 55 incredible stories in which soccer clubs have been a mirror toand a maker ofworld history.Full of anecdotes, surprising facts and illustrations, Ramon Usall mixes the grassroots with the greatest of all time; the unknown and the unforgettable. He looks at the womens game, soccer during the war in Ukraine, and stories of clubs from the US to Britain, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, from football under the Nazis to the communists and everyone in between.Ramon Usall is a writer, academic and political activist. He is the author of Futbol per la llibertat, which won the Josep Vallverd Essay Prize.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2024
• Übersetzer: Luke Stobart
• Zusatzinfo: 30 B&W Photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: arab spring • Barcelona • best football books • best football books 2024 • Celtic • cooperative clubs • Corinthians • Corruption in football • Emancipation • fan culture • footba • Football • Football Against the Enemy • football and anti-colonialism • football and anti-fascism • football books as gifts • football books as presents • football books for adults • football books for fathers day • football clubs • football fans • Football History • football hooligan books • Football in Sun and Shadow • Football ultras • History from below • history of football • History of sport • hooliganism • juventus • lionesses • Manchester City • Palestinian football • politics of football • popular football • Popular History • popular history of football • racism in football • Real Madrid • resistance • Soccer • Socrates • Soviet Union • Sport • Sport History • Sports History • St Pauli • St. Pauli • street football • The Ball is Round • Tottenham Hotspur • ultra culture • Women in football • women's football • Working Class Football • working class history • Working Class Sport
• ISBN-13: 9780745350431 / 9780745350431