Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world,
gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in
countries all around the world. More than just entertainment,
soccer has proved to be a reflection of national, cultural,
community and ethnic identity as well as an indication of the
development and international status of post-colonial nation
states. For those nations still at the fringes of the modern global
game, soccer represents a vision of potential commercialisation,
capable of generating foreign reserves and bringing in considerable
economic power.
This book explores aspects of the development of soccer in
countries which have recently been marginalised in world soccer or
have only erratic success on the international stage. These fringe
nations include a greater part of Africa, the USA, Australia,
Israel, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives
and Sri Lanka, and while these countries are rarely noticed by the
global football media, they nonetheless have great potential to
excel, and many have a rich soccer heritage that still holds a
place of central importance in the every day life of the
people.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer
and Society.
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