Football Against The Enemy

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them.

Zusatztext A terrific book Informationen zum Autor Simon Kuper is an award-winning author and journalist, who has written for the Observer , The Times and the Guardian . He has worked for the Financial Times since 2002 and is currently their Life & Arts Columnist. He is the author of the modern classic Football Against the Enemy , which was awarded the William Hill Sports Book Award in 1994; Ajax, The Dutch, The War ; co-author of Soccernomics ; The Football Men ; Barca , which won the Sunday Times Football Book of the Year 2022; The Happy Traitor ; Chums ; and Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century . Klappentext Intelligent and witty book about football's place in the societies of the world. "If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it." Simon Barnes, "The Times" Vorwort Simon Kuper's modern classic - 'If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it'. The Times Zusammenfassung 'GREAT' Independent 'TERRIFIC' Guardian 'WONDERFUL' Time Out 'QUALITY' Mail on Sunday 'DEFINITIVE' FourFourTwo Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Award Featured in FourFourTwo 's list of 'The 10 Best Football Books Ever' Featured in Esquire 's 'Best Sports Books Ever Written' Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to twenty-two countries from South Africa and Italy to Russia and the USA to examine the way football has shaped them. At the same time, he tried to find out what lies behind each nation's distinctive style of play, from the carefree self-expression of the Brazilians to the anxious calculation of the Italians. During his journeys he met an extraordinary range of players, politicians and - of course - the fans themselves, all of whom revealed in their different ways the unique place football has in the life of the planet. ...

A terrific book

Vorwort
Simon Kuper's modern classic - 'If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it'. The Times

Autorentext
Simon Kuper is an award-winning author and journalist, who has written for the Observer, The Times and the Guardian. He has worked for the Financial Times since 2002 and is currently their Life & Arts Columnist. He is the author of the modern classic Football Against the Enemy, which was awarded the William Hill Sports Book Award in 1994; Ajax, The Dutch, The War; co-author of Soccernomics; The Football Men; Barca, which won the Sunday Times Football Book of the Year 2022; The Happy Traitor; Chums; and Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century.

Klappentext
Intelligent and witty book about football's place in the societies of the world. "If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it." Simon Barnes, "The Times"


Zusammenfassung
'GREAT' Independent
'TERRIFIC' Guardian
'WONDERFUL' Time Out
'QUALITY' Mail on Sunday
'DEFINITIVE' FourFourTwo

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Award
Featured in FourFourTwo's list of 'The 10 Best Football Books Ever'
Featured in Esquire's 'Best Sports Books Ever Written'

Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed.

Simon Kuper travelled to twenty-two countries from South Africa and Italy to Russia and the USA to examine the way football has shaped them. At the same time, he tried to find out what lies behind each nation's distinctive style of play, from the carefree self-expression of the Brazilians to the anxious calculation of the Italians. During his journeys he met an extraordinary range of players, politicians and - of course - the fans themselves, all of whom revealed in their different ways the unique place football has in the life of the planet.

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