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Kicking Off Around The World Ramon Usall

Kicking Off Around The World von Ramon Usall

Kicking Off Around The World Ramon Usall

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Zusammenfassung

55 unbelievable stories of how football made history

Kicking Off Around The World Zusammenfassung

Kicking Off Around The World: 55 Stories From When Football Met Politics Ramon Usall

'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 'Heroes & Humans' podcast

'Brings us closer to the overlooked aspects of football,the social and political ones, which truly imbueclubs with soul' Carles Vinas, 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 toand a maker ofworld 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 womens 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.

Kicking Off Around The World Bewertungen

'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

'Usall brings us closer, through these 55 stories, to that often overlooked and underestimated aspect of football, the most social, political, and advocacy-driven one, which truly imbues clubs with soul and keeps them rooted in their respective communities'

-- Carles Vinas, author of 'St. Pauli: Another Football is Possible'

'An absolute must for anybody interested in the history of football clubs. Kicking Off Around the World not only provides riveting stories, it also reveals surprises about the politics of football that will keep you engaged throughout the whole book.'

-- Stephen Ortega, Global Sports Initiative, Harvard University

Über Ramon Usall

Ramon Usall is a writer, academic and political activist. He holds a PhD in historyfrom the University of Lleida, andregularly 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 Vallverdu 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 Autonoma de Barcelona. He is currently writing a book on contemporary left-wing politics and movements in the Spanish state.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Britain and Ireland: Manchester City F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Liverpool F.C., Forest Green Rovers, British Ladies' Football Club, Celtic F.C., Star of the Sea Youth Club

2. France and Italy: Red Star F.C., S.C. de Bastia, Juventus F.C., Torino F.C., A.S. Roma, Inter Milan

3. Iberian Peninsular: Associacao Academica de Coimbra,Atletico Madrid,Madrid F.C. (Real Madrid), Rayo Vallecano, F.C. Barcelona, C.E. Jupiter, Spanish Girls Club

4. Central Europe and Scandinavia:Berliner F.C. Dynamo, F.C. Union Berlin, S.C. Tasmania von 1900 Berlin e.V., St. Pauli, Polonia Warszawa, Ajax Amsterdam, Hakoah Vienna, Christiania S.C.

5. The Balkans:G.N.K Dinamo Zagreb, H.N.K Hajduk Split, F.K. Sloboda Tuzla, F.K Velez Mostar, Olympiacos Piraeus

6. Eastern Europe and the Caucasus: F.C. Olt Scornicesti, F.C. Dynamo Kyiv, F.C. Shakhtar Donetsk, F.C. Karpaty Lviv, F.C. Stroitel Pripyat, Klub Oktyabrskoi Revolutsii (Lokomotiv Moscow), F.C. Akhmat Grozny, Qarabag F.K.

7. The Middle East and Central Asia: Erbil Sports Club, Al-Wehdat Sports Club, Shaheen Asmayee F.C.

8. Africa:Racing Universitaire DAlger, Club Atletico de Tetuan, JS Massira, Hafia F.C., The Passive Resisters Soccer Club

9. The Americas:New York Ramblers, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, C.D. Cobresal, Colo-Colo, Mushuc Runa S.C., C.D. Euzkadi

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Kicking Off Around The World: 55 Stories From When Football Met Politics Ramon Usall
Ramon Usall
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Pluto Press
2024-06-20
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