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Uruguay remains a curious case in world football. Early Olympic and
World Cup triumphs made it the game's first global power, and the
small country has punched above its weight ever since. But the
story behind its success is untold. In this first English-language
history of Uruguayan football, Martin da Cruz maps the game's
journey from exclusive British pastime to Uruguayan national
passion, bringing to life the teams, players and personalities who
helped create one of the world's most intense sporting cultures.
From the start, football was intimately tied to Uruguay's national
story. Wedged between giants Argentina and Brazil and lacking a
cohesive national identity, Uruguay used the game to create unified
and educated citizens, to put an end to civil war and become an
advanced social democracy. Yet football also drove
counter-narratives of class and race, challenging Uruguay's
self-identification as a peaceful, 'white' nation. From Beauty to
Duty is the story of a little country made big.
Got That Lovin’ Feelin’ is the enthralling story of Nottingham
Forest’s emotional return to the Premier League under Steve
Cooper in 2022. It charts the promotions, relegations, financial
problems and missed opportunities that made Forest’s journey back
to the big time such a compelling one. Cooper’s side’s
thrilling and unexpected promotion campaign put an end to 23 years
outside the top flight. In those lean times, Forest frequently
became a byword for decline on the pitch and madness in the
boardroom. The book features opinions and insights from those who
worked on the pitch, in the dugout and in the corridors of power.
It also tells the story of Forest’s first season back in the big
time, through the eyes of fans, players and pundits – all the
while exploring what it means to be connected to this grand,
historic and pioneering club. From Frank Clark’s European
dreamers to Cooper’s play-off winners, this is Forest’s
roller-coaster ride of a story. Â
'One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the
point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save
it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.' Brian
Clough's twenty years as Nottingham Forest manager were an
unpredictable mixture of success, failure, fall-outs and
alcoholism. Duncan Hamilton, initiated as a young journalist into
the Brian Clough empire, was there to see it all. In this
strikingly intimate biography - William Hill Sports Book of the
Year 2007 - Hamilton paints a vivid portrait of one of football's
greatest managers: from Nottingham Forest's double European Cup
triumph to the torturous breakdown of relations at the club and
Clough's descent into alcoholism. Sad, joyous and personal,
Hamilton's account of life with Brian Clough is a touching tribute
to a brilliant man.
The Making of the FIFA World Cup takes us on a fast-paced trip
through the history of football's biggest tournament, with a
comprehensive collection of the World Cup's defining moments.
Filled with unforgettable episodes such as England's 1966 triumph
and Maradona's 'Hand of God', the book transports us to the World
Cup's most important flashpoints, recounting each moment and the
story behind it. It also puts some of the World Cup's quirkiest
events under the microscope: whether it's Zaire's bizarre defence
of a free kick against Brazil in 1974 or a scruffy collie dog
locating the stolen World Cup trophy under a car in London. From
the greatest goals to the biggest controversies, from the funniest
moments to the most memorable matches, The Making of the FIFA World
Cup gives you an in-depth look at why the competition is sport's
most-watched event - through the moments that make it so dramatic,
popular and irresistibly exciting.
This is the first book-length political sociology of the European
Football Championships (Euros). The Euros are the third largest
sporting mega-event in the world. Explores key themes and emerging
trends in sport studies, including digitalisation, the politics of
co-hosting, and environmental concerns.
'My identity is built on conflicts, and I'm proud of who I am ... I
can walk through the rest of my life with something to say.' Nedum
Onuoha was not a typical footballer. A young black Mancunian picked
by the Manchester City Academy aged ten, he was determined to
continue his education despite the lure of a career under the
floodlights. Fiercely intelligent on and off the pitch, Onuoha
developed into a talented defender and played his part in City's
meteoric rise. He was at the Etihad Stadium when they won their
first Premier League title - as an opposition player for QPR,
having left the Blues just four months earlier. In this
characteristically forthright book, Onuoha reveals what goes on
behind the scenes at top-tier clubs. Stuffed with insights into
household names like Stuart Pearce, Sven-Goeran Eriksson, Roberto
Mancini and Harry Redknapp, this is football and its most famous
figures as you've never seen them before. Kicking Back is also the
story of one man's search for identity: as a footballer, as a black
man in England and as an outsider in the US during the 2020 Black
Lives Matter protests. What is it like to receive horrific racist
abuse while doing your job? And how has football utterly failed the
black community? Onuoha provides a damning assessment of the
sport's authorities, finally claiming his voice as he dives deep
into a life spent on the pitch.
From the makers of the UK's best football magazine! MATCH is the
UK's bestselling football annual and is top of Christmas wishlists
for footy fans everywhere. Inside the Match Annual 2021 you can
find the ultimate guide to Euro 2020, epic interviews with the
stars, plus the UK and Ireland dream team and also discover
everything you need to know about Messi, Ronaldo, Kane, Salah,
Mbappe, Maguire, Hazard, Pogba and all the other top footballers.
Plus, it's packed with legendary Prem No.7s, craziest hair of 2019,
brain-busting quizzes, the greatest Premiership team ever, bonkers
pics, footy stars emojis, cool cartoons and loads more! Don't miss
it!
As football clubs have become luxury investments, their
decisions increasingly mirror those of any other business
organisation. Football supporters have been encouraged to express
their club loyalty by thinking business - acting as consumers and
generating money deemed necessary for their clubs to compete at the
highest levels. In critical studies, supporters have been portrayed
as passive or reluctant consumers who, imprisoned by enduring club
loyalties, embody a fatalistic attitude to their own exploitation.
As this book aims to show, however, such expressions of loyalty are
far from hegemonic and often interface haphazardly with traditional
ideas about what constitutes the loyal fan . While there is little
doubt that professional football is experiencing commodification,
the reality is that football clubs are not simply businesses, nor
can they ever aspire to be organisations driven solely by expanding
or protecting economic value. Rather, clubs hover uncertainly
between being businesses and community assets."
Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football"
explores the implications of this uncertainty for understanding
supporter resistance to, and compromise with, commodification.
Every club and its supporters exist in their own unique national
and local contexts. In this respect, this book offers a Euro-wide
comparison of supporter reactions to commercialisation and provides
unique insight into how football supporters actively mediate
regional, local and national contexts, as they intersect with the
universalistic presumptions of commerce.
This book was previously published as a special issue of "Soccer
and Society."
Rangers 101 distils the history of the most successful football
club in the world, Glasgow Rangers F.C. From their founding in 1872
and their first (drawn) League Championship, all the way through to
the present day, Rangers' history is brought to life via people,
matches and objects. This fascinating volume traces the nearly 150
years of this unsurpassed institution - sometimes irreverent but
always faithful to the characters, controversies, disasters and
achievements that have taken place to give the club such a rich
tapestry of triumph. Whether an old fan or new this is a perfect
partner for those who support the club, are interested in its
history and who love to recall past and present glories.
West Ham United's move to the new Olympic Stadium ended a 114-year
stay at the Boleyn Ground. The spiritual home of some of football's
greatest heroes: Bobby Moore, Billy Bonds, Trevor Brooking and
Frank Lampard were just a few who made their name there, and
revelled in its close-knit east London atmosphere. With the club
anthem 'Bubbles' ringing around the stands, the Boleyn Ground had a
raw flavour of its own. There were unforgettable afternoons
fashioned by the club's two greatest managers, Ron Greenwood and
John Lyall; fabulous nights under the lights, as the tightly-packed
confines of the ground made it the most intense of stadiums;
wonderful evenings competing against the best in Europe, such as
beating Eintracht Frankfurt on a mud-heap of a pitch. Now it is
gone, but the magic, the fervour, the triumphs, the disappointments
and the special brand of humour which flourished there is captured
here in all its glory. With full access to The Times archives and
stunning photographic collection, lifelong Hammers fan John Dillon
has penned the definitive history of the Home of the Hammers.
First published in 1988, this book contains edited and revised
papers presented at the first World Congress of Science and
Football. Held under the auspices of the International Council of
Sport, Science, and Physical Education, the Congress was a unique
gathering of international scientists researching into football and
practitioners professionally involved in the many football codes.
American football, soccer, rugby league, rugby union, Australian
rules, Gaelic football and national variations of these games are
all covered in depth, in both amateur and professional systems.
Nutrition, biomechanics, equipment, physiology, sociology,
psychology, coaching, management, training, tactics, strategy are
among the main subject areas the contributors cover. With over 22
countries represented and with players, managers and coaches
involved as well as academics the book represents a truly
international, comprehensive and practical picture of contemporary
football.
Football fans love nothing more than to read about their favourite
teams. Although this books is aimed at young teenagers they will
delight all ages with their mixture of funny and enlightening
stories and will give hours of pleasure discovering quirky facts
about your favourite team. Each title is also augmented with a
selection of sketches by the young sketch artist Becky Welton that
depict some of the stories within.
Over the past decade, European football has seen tremendous changes
impacting upon its international framework as well as local
traditions and national institutions. Processes of Europeanization
in the fields of economy and politics provided the background for
transformations of the production and consumption of football on a
transnational scale. In the course of such rearrangements, football
tournaments like the UEFA Championship or the European Champions
League turned into mega-events and media spectacles attracting
ever-growing audiences. The experience of participating in these
events offers some of the very few occasions for the display and
embodiment of identities within a European context. This volume
takes the 2008 EUROs hosted by Austria and Switzerland as a case
study to analyze the political and cultural significance of the
tournament from a multidisciplinary angle. What are the special
features and spatial arrangements of a UEFAesque Europe, in
comparison to alternative possibilities of a Europe? Situating the
sport tournament between interpretations of collective European
ritual and European spectacle, the key research question will ask
what kind of Europe was represented in the cultural, political and
economic manifestations of the 2008 EUROs. This book was published
as a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of
the most controversial football World Cup of all time. When
Argentina both hosted and won the World Cup in 1978, just two years
after the coup d'etat that ousted Isabel Peron, it was against the
backdrop of a brutal military dictatorship in the country. Under
the leadership of General Jorge Videla, up to 30,000 citizens,
categorised as subversives, 'disappeared'. Dogged by allegations of
bribery, coercion and an historic failed drugs test, this is the
story of Argentina's maiden World Cup triumph and the controversy
that simmered behind it. This isn't exclusively a tale of
footballers and generals, and the risks they took to succeed. It's
a story of the people: Argentinean exiles, Parisian students, brave
journalists, the marching mothers of Plaza de Mayo and their
missing children - and Dutch stand-up comedians who led
international boycotts from thousands of miles away.
This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women
experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate
surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned
to shape women 's experiences of playing the game), by focusing on
organisational, administrative and coaching practices, alongside
the particular issues surrounding sexuality, ethnicity and
disability (not only gender).
The book analyses football and gender to reveal the subtle forms
of discrimination that persist. It is important to highlight the
many challenges and transformations made by girls and women but
more importantly to consider the ways power continues to operate to
devalue and undermine girls and women involved in the game. The
UK-based authors make use of their recent research findings to
offer critical debate on girls and women 's current experiences of
British football cultures. Overall the book reveals the present day
complexities of marginalisation and exclusion.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport and
Society.
The Nearly Men tells the fascinating stories of some of the most
revered international football teams of all time. Through the
history of the World Cup there are many sides who thrilled us all
with their elegance and style, or who revolutionised the game, only
to fail when it mattered most. They are the teams that could, and
in some cases perhaps should, have won the World Cup, yet remain
memorable for what they did achieve as well as what they didn't.
They all left a lasting legacy, be that of unfulfilled potential,
crushed dreams or the artistry they produced that could have seen
them prevail. Their exploits and accomplishments are frequently
hailed more than those of the winners. The Nearly Men celebrates
these teams: what made them great, what saw them fail, the legacy
they left and why onlookers remember them so fondly. It is a tale
of frustration and disappointment, but also of footballing beauty
and lasting legacy, in homage to the kind of greatness that isn't
defined by victory.
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