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Red Card
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest corruption case of recent years—involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including the World Cup is “an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue…A riveting book” (The New York Times). The FIFA case began small, boosted by an IRS agent’s review of an American soccer official’s tax returns. But that humble investigation eventually led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of the soccer’s world governing body in Switzerland. “The meeting of American investigative reportin...
Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport
Enthralling history of how sport has seeped into and enriched languages and lives from Afghanistan to Alaska and Zambia to Zermatt.
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Juego, luego existo
Cuatro décadas deporte local y mundial narrados y analizados por el periodista más respetado y prestigioso. A 10.000 kilómetros de distancia de Madrid, donde resido, un periodista me convoca desde hace años. Resulta alentador el encuentro con Fernández Moores y sus columnas. Incluso en las escasas veces que no coincido con su opinión, lo leo con gratitud, en primer lugar por el respeto con el que trata a los lectores. Sus opiniones son firmes, pero no dogmáticas. Su interés por los datos es tan relevante como su desinterés por la demagogia. Su estilo, sucinto y contundente, desestima la retórica en favor de una claridad admirable. Sus columnas no deleitan, exigen. Requieren que el ...
The Ball is Round
The definitive book about football. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of football are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of football's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates football's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.
The Fix
In this book, the author explains the structure and mechanics of illegal gambling syndicates, what soccer players and referees do (or not do) to affect the outcome of their games, why relatively rich and high-status athletes would fix games, how and why club officials would bribe the opposition and how they get referees "on their side." It presents evidence that some of the highest soccer matches in the world may have been fixed: European Champions League, Olympic and World Cup tournaments. The book, however, is not just about soccer, throughout the text, the author uses examples from other sports like tennis, hockey, even rowing; to show that the credibility of professional sport now lies on a fragile foundation.
Routledge Handbook of Tennis
Tennis is one of the world’s most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate. Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world’s most significant sports, expressing crucial fractures of social class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity - both on and off court. This is the first book to undertake a survey of the historical and socio-cultural sweep of tennis, exploring key themes from governance, development and social inclusion to national identity and the role of the media. It is presented in three parts: historical developments; culture and representations; and politics and social issues, and features contributions by leading tennis scholars from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The most authoritative book published to date on the history, culture and politics of tennis, this is an essential reference for any course or program examining the history, sociology, politics or culture of sport.
Sociology of Sport
The Sociology of Sport has grown since its inception in the late 1950s and has become robust, and diverse. Many countries now boast strong scholars in the field and this volume reflects the fascinating research being done. This innovative volume is dedicated to a review of the state of the area by region.
World Cup 2010
The 2010 World Cup will be the first ever held on the continent of Africa. This book features introductory essays on the cultural importance of soccer, the World cup, this tournament in particular, and on African soccer. The book contains an introductory essay, table, analysis of team players, coach, history, flag, foods, and uniforms for each of the 32 teams.
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