Sports & Recreation
Soccer Against the Enemy
- 2006
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Type: BOOK
Published for the first time in the U.S. to coincide with the 2006 World Cup, an analysis of the role of professional soccer in world affairs offers insight into the political and cultural factors that come into play between competing ...
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Football Against the Enemy
- 1998
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
Published: 1998
Type: BOOK
Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped these countries.
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How Soccer Explains the World
- 2009-10-13
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Type: BOOK
From Brazil to Bosnia, and Italy to Iran, this is an eye-opening chronicle of how a beautiful sport and its fanatical followers can highlight the fault lines of a society, whether it’s terrorism, poverty, anti-Semitism, or radical ...
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The Barcelona Complex
- 2022-08-16
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-08-16
Type: BOOK
But his era is coming to an end—and with it, a once-in-a-lifetime golden run. This book charts Barça’s rise and fall.
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Soccer Vs. the State
- 2011
Publisher: Pm Press
Published: 2011
Type: BOOK
From its working-class roots to commercialisation and resistance to it - this is football history for the politically conscious fan.
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Soccer Men
- 2014-04-22
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 2014-04-22
Type: BOOK
Kuper now leaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul of the world's most popular sport in the new, extraordinarily revealing Soccer Men. Soccer Men goes behind the scenes with soccer's greatest players and coaches.
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A Life Too Short
- 2011-09-29
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-09-29
Type: BOOK
WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR Why does an international footballer with the world at his feet decide to take his own life?
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What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
- 2017-10-31
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-10-31
Type: BOOK
... Writing the Beautiful Game ( Farrar , Strauss and Giroux , New York , 2016 ) . Simon Kuper , Soccer Against the Enemy ( Nation Books , New York , 2006 [ 1994 ] ) . Bruno Latour , We Have Never Been Modern ( Harvard Bibliography | 179.
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The State of the Field
- 2018-12-07
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Type: BOOK
... soccer is a triumph of the global imaginary , if not yet a driving force in global economics or global politics ... Against the Enemy , 272 . 7. Kuper , ' Soccer Explains Nothing ' . 8. Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson ...
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Long-Range Goals
- 2010-05-31
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2010-05-31
Type: BOOK
... Soccer and American Exceptionalism (Princeton University Press, 2001) put that point in vivid detail. In Soccer Against the Enemy, Simon Kuper put it like this: “When immigrants from Europe landed in the U.S., their children were teased ...
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