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Following the Ball - The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Paperback)
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Following the Ball - The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Paperback)
Series: Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
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With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport,
diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary
experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African
colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the
conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was
Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its
attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the
supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes
in on the ways that players, such as the great Eusébio, creatively
exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and
occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal’s
empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows
how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries
and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as
mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players’ transnational
histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal
soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of
Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field
challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space
in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and
experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the
components and processes of empire.
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