Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories from When Soccer Met Politics

'A tour-de-force that touches on how football is always mixed up with politics in every corner of...
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Author: Ramon Usall
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Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories from When Soccer Met Politics by Usall, Ramon

Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories from When Soccer Met Politics

$51.98

Kicking Off Around the World: 55 Stories from When Soccer Met Politics

$51.98
Author: Ramon Usall
Format: Paperback
Language: English

'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

'Brings us closer to the overlooked aspects of football, the social and political ones, which truly imbue clubs with soul' Carles Vi?as, author of St. Pauli: Another Football is Possible

Think 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 to--and a maker of--world 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 women's 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.



Author: Ramon Usall
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 06/20/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780745350424

About the Author
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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