The Age of Football
The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century
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Product details:
- Edition number Air Iri OME
- Publisher Macmillan
- Date of Publication 5 September 2019
- Number of Volumes Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9781509854264
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages688 pages
- Size 233x154x42 mm
- Weight 804 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The critically acclaimed global story of football in the twenty-first century.
MoreLong description:
'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail' - Mail on Sunday
A Sunday Times Best Sports Book of the Year
The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism of football, by the critically acclaimed author of The Ball is Round.
In the twenty-first century football is first. First among sports themselves, but it now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon. In the three most populous nations on the earth – China, India and the United States where just twenty years ago football existed on the periphery of society – it has now arrived for good. Nations, peoples and neighbourhoods across the globe imagine and invent themselves through playing and following the game.
In The Age of Football, David Goldblatt charts football’s global cultural ascent, its economic transformation and deep politicization, taking in prison football in Uganda and amputee football in Angola, the role of football fans in the Arab Spring, the footballing presidencies of Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Turkey’s Recep Erdogan, China’s declared intention to both host and win the World Cup by 2050, and the FIFA corruption scandal.
Following the intersection of the game with money, power and identity, like no previous sports historian, Goldblatt’s sweeping story is remarkable in its scope, breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, and is a brilliantly original perspective of the twenty-first century. It is the account of how football has come to define every facet of our social, economic and cultural lives and at what cost, shaping who we think we are and who we want to be.
'David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing today, he is possibly the best there has ever been.' – Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail More
