Kicking Off Around The World
55 Stories From When Football Met Politics
$32.79
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
20 June 2024
Summary
‘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 ‘Heroes & Humans’ podcast
‘Brings us closer to the overlooked aspects of football, the social and political ones, which truly imbue clubs with soul’ Carles Viñas, author of St. Pauli: Another Football is Possible
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745348797 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745348793 |
| Author: | Ramon Usall, Luke Stobart |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 20 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘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 podcast‘Usall brings us closer, through these 55 stories, to that often overlooked and underestimated aspect of football, the most social, political, and advocacy-driven one, which truly imbues clubs with soul and keeps them rooted in their respective communities’
– Carles Viñas, author of ‘St. Pauli: Another Football is Possible’‘An absolute must for anybody interested in the history of football clubs. Kicking Off Around the World not only provides riveting stories, it also reveals surprises about the politics of football that will keep you engaged throughout the whole book.’
– Stephen Ortega, Global Sports Initiative, Harvard University‘Engaging … a deliberate riposte to the notion that sport and politics shouldn’t mix’
Ramon Usall
Ramon Usall is a writer, academic and political activist. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Lleida, and regularly writes in different media on the relationship between sport, history, society and politics. He is the author of Futbol per la llibertat, which won the Josep Vallverdú Essay Prize.
Luke Stobart is an academic and writer, as well as a translator and interpreter. He is a lecturer in Spanish history and politics at King’s College, London, and economic history at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is currently writing a book on contemporary left-wing politics and movements in the Spanish state.
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