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John Sugden - FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples´ Game? - 9780745616605 - V9780745616605
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FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples´ Game?

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Description for FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples´ Game? Hardback. The first systematized analysis of FIFA and of the politics of world football. aeo Much of the material is based on original research and is drawn from unique interviews and never--cited documentary sources. aeo An accessible introduction to the contest for control of world football. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; KNSP; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 616.

In FIFA and the Contest for World Football Sugden and Tomlinson provide the first full-length study of FIFA (the Federation Internationale de Football Association) and its role in framing and controlling world football. Interviewing more than seventy influential leaders world-wide and drawing on exclusive documentary sources, the authors demonstrate FIFA's importance in twentieth-century sport, and in an increasingly global consumer culture.

The first part of the book covers the origins and organizational characteristics of FIFA, and of the European and South American federations. The second part considers how new and powerful players have emerged in FIFA in the wake of ... Read more

The book is a valuable addition to the politics and social history of sport, and to the sociology of the global system and the changing world order. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of sport studies, cultural studies and the sociology of popular culture, and to everyone concerned with the social organization of one of the world's most popular sports.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745616605
SKU
V9780745616605
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About John Sugden
John Sugden is Reader in the Sociology of Sport, and Alan Tomlinson is Professor in Sport and Leisure Studies, both at the University of Brighton.

Reviews for FIFA and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples´ Game?
"I feel quite convinced that your book will arouse the interest of many readers and I have no hesitation in congratulating you in advance on its success." Dr Joao Havelange, FIFA President "An academic study, but a gripping one, because the story they tell is an extraordinary one. Independent Sunday Magazine "Insightful..." Total Sport ... Read more

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