How Soccer Explains the World : An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

from rocketjk

This book was very interesting and I read through it quite quickly. It is a series of essays about how soccer, and more specifically love for a particular local soccer team, has affected politics, class identification and ethnic animosities in different countries and cities, mostly in Europe but ...

from DinadansFriend

this book has a double task: 1) to explain to Americans the present organization of the FIFA, and how much the rest of the world loves this cheap and simple game. 2) How this relates to business practices in the Globalized Economy. It doesn't do a bad job of item 1, but the part played by real fo...

from Opinionated

There is definitely a book to be written about football and globalisation, but sadly this isn't it. Foer has written a book with a great title, but not much else, and it will fail to please either those interested in football or in globalisation. What we do get is a series of vignettes, that feel...

from scottycarp

Too American. He calls kick off, game time. Even worse he calls football, soccer. He thinks capitalism and globalisation are good for football. And apparently Pre-Sky, Pre-Premiership football grounds were only inhabited by hooligans.

from khuggard

This book started out strong, but it fizzled after the first two or three chapters. In fact, I didn't even read the last two chapters because I was beginning to find the reading to be somewhat of a chore. I had the feeling that the author really wanted to write a book about soccer and he construc...