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This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members.
Paul Darby has an international reputation as a Feng Shui master who specializes in practical solutions to everyday problems in the home or workplace. Steeped in the energy wisdom of ancient China, but refreshingly modern and no-nonsense in his approach, he takes from tradition what is relevant to 21st-century living and distils it into his own distinctive blend of up-to-the-minute practical alchemy. The Feng Shui Doctor is a complete how-to manual, to help us optimize energy flows inside or out to create an environment in which we feel happy, healthy and at peace. Paul conveys his twelve years of experience in the form of concise principles and precepts, tackling questions such as: how can ...
African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.
As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer generates key moments of significance on and off the field, encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and aesthetic implications. Since its inception as a modern game, the history of soccer has been replete with events that have changed the organization, meanings and impact of the sport. The passage from the club to the nation or from the local to the global often opens up transnational spaces that provide a context for studying the events that have 'defined' the sport and its followers. Such defining events can include sporting performances, de...
The authors look at soccer disasters across the globe from air crashes to overcrowding. The causes, consequences and legacies are explored in this book which reveals frightening parallels and important lessons.
Paul as a radical Jewish mystic whose insights often anticipate the world of twentieth-century psychoanalysis.
This book employs men's football as a lens through which to investigate questions relating to immigration, racism, integration and national identity in present-day Sweden. Specifically, this study explores if professional football serves as a successful model of multiracialism/multiculturalism for the rest of Swedish society to emulate.
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