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Moments, Metaphors, Memories - Defining Events in the History of Soccer (Hardcover)
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Moments, Metaphors, Memories - Defining Events in the History of Soccer (Hardcover)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer
generates key moments of significance on and off the field,
encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with
wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and
aesthetic implications. Since its inception as a modern game, the
history of soccer has been replete with events that have changed
the organization, meanings and impact of the sport. The passage
from the club to the nation or from the local to the global often
opens up transnational spaces that provide a context for studying
the events that have 'defined' the sport and its followers. Such
defining events can include sporting performances, decisions taken
by various stakeholders of the game, accidents and violence among
players and fans, and invention of supporter cultures, among other
things. The present volume attempts to document, identify and
analyse some of the defining events in the history of soccer from
interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. It revisits the
discourses of signification and memorialization of such events that
have influenced society, culture, politics, religion, and commerce.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Soccer & Society.
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