Kicking Off Around The World (eBook)

55 Stories From When Football Met Politics

Ramon Usall (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
336 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4880-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A tour-de-force that touches on how football is always mixed up with politics in every corner of the globe Mehreen Khan, The Times and co-host of the Humans & Heroes football podcastBrings us closer to the overlooked aspects of football, the social and political ones, which truly imbue clubs with soul Carles Vias, author of St. Pauli: Another Football is PossibleThink you know everything about football?Which football 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 football clubs have been a mirror toand a maker ofworld history and politics.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, football during the war in Ukraine, and stories of clubs from Britain to the US, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, from football under the Nazis to the communists and everyone in between.Ramon Usall is a sports and crime writer, living in Catalonia. 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: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• 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-10: 0-7453-4880-7 / 0745348807
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4880-3 / 9780745348803