As a universal game, association football has been particularly
suited to the transfer of labor forces. It does not require the use
of a specific national language, a recognized diploma or acquired
qualification, and the rules are standardized across the globe.
Thus the international football market could be considered an ideal
example of a transnational and multicultural employment sector.
Role models throughout the history of professional football have
not necessarily come from the town, nation, racial group or
religious denomination of the majority of supporters, as is seen in
the cases of Maradona in Naples, the German Bert Trautmann after
the Second World War, and more recently the Frenchman Eric Cantona
in Manchester, the Cameroonese Milla in France, and the Argentinian
Di Stefano in Madrid. Football provides a particularly revealing
lens through which to examine changes in national styles and
stereotypes as they have been (and still are) reflected in the
search for identities in sporting heroes.
In this book, the authors consider the movement of football
labor from the late nineteenth-century to the present day within
the framework of international migration as a whole. Emphasis is
given to the initial role of the British in the early twentieth
century and the impact of the earliest South American and Yugoslav
football "wanderers". The position of African footballers in the
postwar period and the failure of America's national league in the
1970s are also discussed, along with the international market for
coaches and managers, the development of national playing styles
and the immediate consequences and future implications of the
Bosman ruling.
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