Buy this book on-line KUPER, SIMON: : FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMYLONDON.ORION,1994. ISBN 1857975588.
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inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour photographic upper wrap,sepia photograph to rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents pristine.Unblemished,plain red paper-covered boards with bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw.dj,1st edn,x+2-223pp includes title+half-title pages,contents list,18 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp116-7 and a bibliography to rear.
Football is much more than just the most popular game in the world.It can start wars and revolutions,or it can keep dictators in power.It is literally a matter of life and death,and is sometimes,in Bill Shankly's phrase,much more important than that.
Simon Kuper travelled to twenty-two nations from South Africa to Italy,from Russia to the USA,to discover the bizarre effects football can have on politics and culture.At the same time he tried to find out what makes different countries play differently.What makes the Brazilians
'Brazilian', the Dutch 'Dutch', the British 'British'? Along the way he spoke to players and politicians and to a remarkable variety of fans, from the East Berliner persecuted by the Stasi for supporting his local side to the Argentine
general with his own firm views on tactics.He found a football club licensed to sell nuclear missile parts and another that is setting up its own university,and experienced the very different emotions of an Old Firm game in Glasgow and a Cameroonian Cup Final.The result is an astonishing study of football and its place in the world.
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