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Fringe nations in world soccer / edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay and Sabyasachi Mallick.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2008Description: ix, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415378222
  • 9780415378222
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
Contents:
Prologue: The Real Peoples' Game / Kausik Bandyopadhyay -- 1. 'Our Wicked Foreign Game': Why has Association Football (Soccer) not Become the Main Code of Football in Australia? / Roy Hay -- 2. Loss of Identity: New Zealand Soccer, its Foundations and its Legacies / Nick Guoth -- 3. Wiping the Stain Off the Field of Plassey: Mohun Bagan in 1911 / Dwaipayan Sen -- 4. The Politics of Football in Iran / Houchang E. Chehabi -- 5. Split Loyalty: Football-cum-Nationality in Israel / Amir Ben-Porat -- 6. Africans' Status in the European Football Players' Labour Market / Raffaele Poli -- 7. Review Essay on Peter Alegi, Laduma! Soccer, Politics and Society in South Africa / Chris Bolsmann -- 8. 'Le Senegal Qui Gagne': Soccer and the Stakes of Neoliberalism in a Postcolonial Port / Michael Ralph -- 9. Sports and Development in Malawi / Sam Mchombo -- 10. An Opportunity for a New Beginning: Soccer, Irish Nationalists and the Construction of a New Multi-Sports Stadium for Northern Ireland / David Hassan -- 11. National Sports and Other Myths: The Failure of US Soccer / Sandra Collins -- 12. Women's Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: Some Preliminary Sociological Comments / Katie Liston -- 13. Critical Events or Critical Conditions: The 1999 Women's World Cup and the Women's United Soccer Association / Sean Brown -- 14. Epilogue: And the Story Goes On / Kausik Bandyopadhyay and Sabyasachi Mallick.
Review: "This book explores aspects of the development of soccer in countries which have recently been marginalised in world soccer or have only erratic success on the international stage. These fringe nations include a greater part of Africa, the USA, Australia, Israel, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives and Sri Lanka, and while these countries are rarely noticed by the global football media, they nonetheless have great potential to excel, and many have a rich soccer heritage that still holds a place of central importance in the every day life of the people."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes index.

Prologue: The Real Peoples' Game / Kausik Bandyopadhyay -- 1. 'Our Wicked Foreign Game': Why has Association Football (Soccer) not Become the Main Code of Football in Australia? / Roy Hay -- 2. Loss of Identity: New Zealand Soccer, its Foundations and its Legacies / Nick Guoth -- 3. Wiping the Stain Off the Field of Plassey: Mohun Bagan in 1911 / Dwaipayan Sen -- 4. The Politics of Football in Iran / Houchang E. Chehabi -- 5. Split Loyalty: Football-cum-Nationality in Israel / Amir Ben-Porat -- 6. Africans' Status in the European Football Players' Labour Market / Raffaele Poli -- 7. Review Essay on Peter Alegi, Laduma! Soccer, Politics and Society in South Africa / Chris Bolsmann -- 8. 'Le Senegal Qui Gagne': Soccer and the Stakes of Neoliberalism in a Postcolonial Port / Michael Ralph -- 9. Sports and Development in Malawi / Sam Mchombo -- 10. An Opportunity for a New Beginning: Soccer, Irish Nationalists and the Construction of a New Multi-Sports Stadium for Northern Ireland / David Hassan -- 11. National Sports and Other Myths: The Failure of US Soccer / Sandra Collins -- 12. Women's Soccer in the Republic of Ireland: Some Preliminary Sociological Comments / Katie Liston -- 13. Critical Events or Critical Conditions: The 1999 Women's World Cup and the Women's United Soccer Association / Sean Brown -- 14. Epilogue: And the Story Goes On / Kausik Bandyopadhyay and Sabyasachi Mallick.

"This book explores aspects of the development of soccer in countries which have recently been marginalised in world soccer or have only erratic success on the international stage. These fringe nations include a greater part of Africa, the USA, Australia, Israel, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Maldives and Sri Lanka, and while these countries are rarely noticed by the global football media, they nonetheless have great potential to excel, and many have a rich soccer heritage that still holds a place of central importance in the every day life of the people."--BOOK JACKET.

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