World Cup Fever
A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments
$49.17
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2026
Summary
The football World Cup is the biggest sporting competition on Earth - a chance every four years for the greatest players to win international glory, and a month-long media spectacle that’s watched by an audience of billions.
But the tournament has changed beyond recognition since the inaugural event in Montevideo, Uruguay, in July 1930. What was once a semi-professional meeting beset by haphazard play has evolved to become a game of multinational buyouts, dubious ethics and questionab…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805224112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805224115 |
| Author: | Simon Kuper |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper is an author and Financial Times journalist, born in Uganda and raised around the world. An Oxford graduate, he later attended Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for the Guardian, Observer, and The Times and is also the author of Chums, The Happy Traitor, Football Against the Enemy and Barça. He lives in Paris with his family.
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