Football Presidents
Towards a Typology of Political Cultures
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 4 March 2026
- ISBN 9781041228134
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages202 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English 692
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Short description:
Football Presidents: Towards a Typology of Political Cultures sheds light on an often-overlooked dimension of football culture: club presidents. This book explores the political cultures of club presidents across countries and contexts, offering fresh insights into the leaders behind the beautiful game.
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Football Presidents: Towards a Typology of Political Cultures sheds light on an often-overlooked dimension of football culture: club presidents. This book explores the political cultures of club presidents across countries and contexts, offering fresh insights into the leaders behind the beautiful game.
Bringing together studies from a wide range of geographical, historical, and political contexts— from Italy to Turkey, from Brazil to Ecuador—this volume develops a typology of political cultures in football leadership. The contributions address central themes such as local power and football, populism, gender, capitalism, tradition, and innovation. By assembling a range of perspectives and case studies, this volume represents a first attempt to systematically address this underexplored dimension of the game.
This volume spans multiple disciplines including Sports Sociology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Football History, Organizational Leadership, and Comparative Politics, making it valuable for interdisciplinary research and teaching. It is a vital resource for researchers, practitioners, and anyone seeking to comprehend the complex power dynamics behind the world's most beloved sport.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
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Introduction 1. Towards an economic and political taxonomy of Italian football presidents (1960–2000) 2. Patrons in German lower league football: a qualitative case study 3. On the spirit of capitalism in football: Dr David Rothschild and Alfred J. Meyers – presidents of FSV Frankfurt, 1925–33 4. Il ‘Mago di Campagna’. Paolo Mazza as president of S.P.A.L. (1947–1976) 5. Women’s football in mid-twentieth century Brazil and France: three team managers from prohibition to profit 6. One lady and two coasts – Veronica Chan’s presidential leadership in the context of women’s football, Hong Kong, and the ‘two chinas’ 7. The ballot and the ball: Abdalá Bucaram, Barcelona SC, and the intersection of populism and machismo in Ecuadorian football club presidencies 8. Roger Rocher, football business pioneer in France with the presidency of the Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne 9. Football and right-wing populisms: S. Berlusconi and G. Becali 10. The revolutionary management of Corinthians Democracy 11. The rise and rise of Mauricio Macri: football, culture and presidential politics in Argentina 1991–2023 12. A team in poverty is a poor team: politics, power, money and football according to Hank Rhon 13. Presidents’ president: Erdoğan-centred crony capitalism and football governance in Turkey 14. Pinto da Costa, a man of (both) old and new football ways
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