Football Against the Enemy
Football Against the Enemy
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Published to coincide with the 1994 World Cup, this book is the record of a journey through Europe, Africa and the Americas looking at the often surprising relations between politics, culture and football.
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Football Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
Published to coincide with the 1994 World Cup, this book is the record of a journey through Europe, Africa and the Americas looking at the often surprising relations between politics, culture and football. The author describes his meetings with a remarkable variety of football fans, from the East German dissident whose crime was to support a West German team, to an Argentinean general with his own highly personal views of tactics - and throws new light on the political, religious and cultural forces at work in the game, from the bitter sectarian hatred of an old firm game to the emergence of racially integrated football in South Africa, from the mafia-controlled corruption of Dynamo Kiev to the Hollywood-style preparations for the USA World Cup.
Simon Kuper is the author of Football Against the Enemy and writes for the Ob
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781857975581 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857975588 |
| Titre | Football Against the Enemy |
| Auteur | Simon Kuper |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Hardback |
| Éditeur | Orion Publishing Co |
| Année de publication | 1994-06-09 |
| Nombre de pages | 256 |
| Prix | Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 1994 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |