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Soccer Empire
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Laurent Dubois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc
Soccer Empire
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Laurent Dubois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Laurent Dubois mines the history of French soccer for fascinating theories and riveting stories. His understanding of the relationship between the game and pol
The Language of the Game
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Laurent Dubois
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-27 - Publisher: Basic Books

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Essential reading for soccer fans as the 2022 World Cup approaches, this lively and lyrical book is "an ideal guide to the world's most popular sport" (Simon Ku
How Soccer Explains the World
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Franklin Foer
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about. . . . Bristles with anecdotes that are almost impossible to believe.” —New Yo
African Soccerscapes
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Peter Alegi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-14 - Publisher: Ohio University Press

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From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing