Fifa and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples' Game? Paperback - 1998
by Sugden, John
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- Paperback
The first full-length study of FIFA (the Federation Internationale de Football Association) and its role in framing and controlling world football draws on exclusive documentary sources to show FIFA's importance in an increasingly global consumer culture. The book examines the origins and organization of FIFA and of the European and South American federations, and considers how new and powerful players have emerged in FIFA in the wake of the collapse of empires.
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- Title Fifa and the Contest for World Football: Who Rules the Peoples' Game?
- Author Sugden, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge;
- Date 1998-06-29
- Features Bibliography, Glossary
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0745616615.G
- ISBN 9780745616612 / 0745616615
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.01 x 0.89 in (22.86 x 15.27 x 2.26 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Soccer - Social aspects, Federation internationale de football
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97051453
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.334
From the rear cover
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 the collapse of empires. The book includes analyses of football's contributions to the growth of nationalism and anti-imperialism; the use of football by ruthless and sometimes corrupt officials and political despots; and its expansion under the influence of increasingly prominent commercial paymasters. Football's role in Africa, Asia and the USA is also illuminated, and FIFA's global mission and rhetoric evaluated.
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.
