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Soccer Empire - The World Cup and the Future of France (Hardcover, New)
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Soccer Empire - The World Cup and the Future of France (Hardcover, New)
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Total price: R1,600
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When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of
its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants,
was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. During the 2006 World Cup
finals, Zidane stunned the country by ending his spectacular career
with an assault on an Italian player. In "Soccer Empire," Laurent
Dubois illuminates the connections between empire and sport by
tracing the story of World Cup soccer, from the Cup's French
origins in the 1930s to Africa and the Caribbean and back again. As
he vividly recounts the lives of two of soccer's most electrifying
players, Zidane and his outspoken teammate, Lilian Thuram, Dubois
deepens our understanding of the legacies of empire that persist in
Europe and brilliantly captures the power of soccer to change the
nation and the world.
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