Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories From When Football Met Politics
Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories From When Football Met Politics by Ramon Usall, translated by Luke Stobart
English | June 20, 2024 | ISBN: 0745348793, 0745350429 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 4 MB
English | June 20, 2024 | ISBN: 0745348793, 0745350429 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 4 MB
Can a football match trigger a war? Can football push back against the tyranny of dictatorship or usher one into power? Kicking Off Around the World shares some incredible stories in which football clubs have been a mirror to—and a maker of—world history.
Ramon Usall shows that almost no contemporary historical episode is not reflected in the trajectory of a football club somewhere. Taking the reader on a whistle-stop tour of the events that have defined the last century, we encounter anti-colonial rebellions, class conflict, Nazism, communism, national liberation struggles, and sectarian strife.
Full of anecdotes, little-known facts, and illustrations, Kicking Off Around the World mixes the grassroots with the greatest of all the unknown and the unforgettable. It looks at the women's game, football during the war in Ukraine, and stories of clubs in Britain and the USA, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.