Top

We have updated our Privacy Policy Please take a moment to review it. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the terms of our updated Privacy Policy.

Football Against The Enemy

On sale

21st July 2011

Price: £9.99

Select a format

Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781409137856

Disclosure: If you buy products using the retailer buttons above, we may earn a commission from the retailers you visit.

‘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.

What's Inside

Read More Read Less

Reviews

Mail on Sunday
Quality soccer books have mushroomed ... but none matches this global examination for originality, breadth and sheer courage
Simon Barnes, The Times
If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it
Time Out
This is a wonderful book written under great duress at times and full of the spirit of youthful exuberance and curiosity that runs way beyond the touchline
Guardian
A terrific book
Independent
Another great work on soccer ... effervescent and hilarious