Kicking Off Around The World : 55 Stories From When Football Met Politics

Author: Usall, Ramon

20th century

Published on 20 June 2024 by PLUTO PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 336 pages, 30 B&W Photographs
198 x 128 x 24 | 298g

‘A tour-de-force that touches on how football is always mixed up with politics in every corner of the globe’ Mehreen Khan, The Times and co-host of the ‘Heroes & Humans’ podcast’Brings us closer to the overlooked aspects of football,the social and political ones, which truly imbueclubs with soul’ Carles Vias, author of St. Pauli: Another Football is PossibleThink you know everything about football?Which football match triggered a war? How did ‘the beautiful game’ push back against the tyranny of dictatorship, and usher another into power? Kicking Off Around the World includes 55 incredible stories in which football clubs have been a mirror toand a maker ofworld history and politics.

Full of anecdotes, surprising facts and illustrations, Ramon Usall mixes the grassroots with the greatest of all time; the unknown and the unforgettable. He looks at the womens game, football during the war in Ukraine, and stories of clubs from Britain to the US, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, from football under the Nazis to the communists and everyone in between.