Ball is round: a global history of football
- Ball is round: a global history of soccer
David Goldblatt descreve a ascensão do futebol, a partir de um ritual popular caótico, para um setor da indústria de entretenimento global. É a história de jogadores e dirigentes, torcedores e proprietários, clubes e equipes nacionais; uma crônica de quem ganhou e quem perdeu. Mas também é uma história de estados e mercados, dinheiro e poder. E, acima de tudo, como todas essas forças interagem. É uma história que tenta localizar onde a linha entre o reino da glória e do reino do poder foi cruzada, que celebra o amor ao jogo, mas sabe que pode ser comprado.
Sumário
Foreword to the American Edition ix
Introduction: life and death, love and money xiii
Part One – Ancients and moderns: football and the invention of Modern Sport, from the Beginning to 1914
1 - Chasing shadows: the prehistory of football 3
2 - The simplest game: Britain and the invention of Modern Football 19
3 - An altogether more splendid life: industrial football and working-class Britain, 1888-1914, 50
Part Two – The people`s game: football, empire and industry 1870-1934
4 - Perfidious albion: the resistible rise of global football 85
5 - The great game and the informal empire: the international spread of football, 1870-1914, 112
6 - Pay up, pay up and play the game: the commercialization of global football, 1914-1934, 171
7 - The rules of the game: International Football and International Politics, 1900-1934, 227
Part Three – The beautiful game: football`s short Twentieth Century, 1934-1974
8 - The road to El Dorado: Latin American Football, 1935-1954, 263
9 - Games of life, games of death: European Football in war and peace, 1934-1954, 297
10 - Demons and angels: Latin American Football, 1955-1974, 357
11 - The glamour and the glory: high industrial football in Europe, 1955-1974, 196
12 - We can show them who is really superior: football in Africa, 1900-1974, 479
Part Four – Things fall apart: football after the long boom, 1974-1990
13 - The World turned upside down: João Havelange, FIFA and the transformation of global football 513
14 - If this football, let it die: the European crisis, 1974-1990, 542
15 - Military maneuvers: football under the Latin American generals, 1974-1990, 606
16 - Football and the belly: Africa, 1974-1990, 649
Part Five: the only game: football and the end of history, 1990-2006
17 - Football through the looking-glass: Europe, 1990-2006, 681
18 - The crisis will be televised: football in the Americas, 1990-2006, 774
19 - Accelerated development: football and Asia`s new industrial revolution 830
20 - Small mercies: football in Africa after the Cold War, 1990-2006, 874
Conclusion: the game at the end the world 900
Notes 908
Bibliography 922
Acknowledgements 930
Index 933
