Association football (Soccer) Books

Book SynopsisThe Beckham enigma continues. Since the publication of Cashmore's challenging social biography in 2003, the working-class kid from the East London has left Manchester and conquered the world. Undisputedly one of the world's most famous men, Beckham has transcended sport to become an all-purpose cultural icon for the twenty-first century. What are the sources of Beckham's godlike status? Why does someone who looks good, but speaks in platitudes and does little but play football, command the adulation of the planet? By dissecting his life and setting it in context of the age of celebrity, Cashmore argues that Beckham has been turned into a product, a commodity that can be bought and sold like any other piece of merchandise. There is not just a person named Beckham: there are countless Beckhams that exist independently of time and space, constructions of peoples' imaginations. The second edition of Beckham updates the original's arguments, covering the eventsTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. OF FROGS AND PRINCES. 2. DISASTER OR DELIVERANCE?. 3. INTO THE WHIRLPOOL. 4. ARTISAN AND ARTIST. 5. THE WORLD IS JUST ABOUT ENOUGH. 6. VICTORIA’S MACHINE. 7. MANCHILD IN PURGATORY. 8. SEX, MASCULINITY AND THE TEMPTATION OF GAY MEN. 9. CUSTODIANS OF THE IMAGE. 10. MADONNA’S PACT. 11. AN AD, A PRODUCT AND A BRAND. 12. YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES ARE ALMOST UP. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThe Beckham enigma continues. Since the publication of Cashmore's challenging social biography in 2003, the working-class kid from the East London has left Manchester and conquered the world. Undisputedly one of the world's most famous men, Beckham has transcended sport to become an all-purpose cultural icon for the twenty-first century. What are the sources of Beckham's godlike status? Why does someone who looks good, but speaks in platitudes and does little but play football, command the adulation of the planet? By dissecting his life and setting it in context of the age of celebrity, Cashmore argues that Beckham has been turned into a product, a commodity that can be bought and sold like any other piece of merchandise. There is not just a person named Beckham: there are countless Beckhams that exist independently of time and space, constructions of peoples' imaginations. The second edition of Beckham updates the original's arguments, covering the eventsTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. OF FROGS AND PRINCES. 2. DISASTER OR DELIVERANCE?. 3. INTO THE WHIRLPOOL. 4. ARTISAN AND ARTIST. 5. THE WORLD IS JUST ABOUT ENOUGH. 6. VICTORIA’S MACHINE. 7. MANCHILD IN PURGATORY. 8. SEX, MASCULINITY AND THE TEMPTATION OF GAY MEN. 9. CUSTODIANS OF THE IMAGE. 10. MADONNA’S PACT. 11. AN AD, A PRODUCT AND A BRAND. 12. YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES ARE ALMOST UP. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“One of the best English-language books on soccer in Latin America.”—Remezcla

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Book SynopsisDiscover the dreams, passions, and rivalries that are at stake in Latin America’s most popular sport. Futbol! explains why competitors and fans alike are so fiercely dedicated to soccer throughout the region. This is an indispensable guide for understanding soccer’s especially vital importance in Latin America.Trade ReviewAn engaging history of Latin America's most prevalent sport that adds to our understanding of nationalism and imagined communities." - Hispanic American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisIn Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Trade Review“A critical and much-needed addition to the scholarship on soccer in general and women’s soccer in particular. This book fills so many knowledge gaps that it is nothing short of a gift to either sports fan or sociologist.” -- Dave Zirin * sports editor, The Nation *“With the 1999 Women’s World Cup as her starting point, Rachel Allison traces the complex reasons why a glass ceiling exists on women’s advancement in professional sports. She offers a sophisticated, rigorous, and engaging account of how women’s sports leagues operate and how women’s soccer has been sold in the U.S. Anyone who cares about the future of women’s sports should read this book.” -- Cheryl Cooky * author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change *“Kicking Center is an engaging, well-written book. Allison offers just the right mix of academic findings and pop-culture references and provocations. This original work raises important questions and then answers them with vim, precision, and rigor.” -- Jules Boykoff * author of Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London *"Engendering Fandom: Audience Building in Women’s Professional Soccer" by Rachel Allison * The Society Pages - Engaging Sports *"A Sociological View on Selling Women’s Soccer: A Conversation with Dr. Rachel Allison," by RJ Allen * Backline Soccer *"One of the most comprehensive books on women and sport to come out in recent years....Those working in sport—including and perhaps especially men—to pick up this book and read it with an open mind." * Gender & Society *"Allison convincingly demonstrates the systematic marginalization of women’s athletics and athletes, who nonetheless challenge the inequalities they routinely face. Recommended." * Choice *"Despite growing audience, women's soccer still fighting for respect, says journalist," CBC "The Current" interview with Rachel Allison https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/despite-growing-audience-women-s-soccer-still-fighting-for-respect-says-journalist-1.5166142 * CBC "The Current" *"The sexism behind the ‘controversy’ over the U.S. women’s soccer team’s 13 goals," by Rachel Allisonhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/14/sexism-behind-controversy-over-us-womens-soccer-teams-goals/?utm_term=.82bdd447ef0a * Washington Post *"Allison’s study reveals a complex field were women in sports have to navigate a thorny terrain – not be too feminine and sexy, not too butch, but still professional and gaining attention." * Idrottsforum *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Kicking Center 1 Women’s Soccer in the United States 2 Business or Cause? Contested Goals 3 We’re Taking Over! Constructing the Fan Base 4 Image Politics and Media (In)Visibility Conclusion: Kicking Forward? Appendices Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Trade Review“A critical and much-needed addition to the scholarship on soccer in general and women’s soccer in particular. This book fills so many knowledge gaps that it is nothing short of a gift to either sports fan or sociologist.” -- Dave Zirin * sports editor, The Nation *“With the 1999 Women’s World Cup as her starting point, Rachel Allison traces the complex reasons why a glass ceiling exists on women’s advancement in professional sports. She offers a sophisticated, rigorous, and engaging account of how women’s sports leagues operate and how women’s soccer has been sold in the U.S. Anyone who cares about the future of women’s sports should read this book.” -- Cheryl Cooky * author of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change *“Kicking Center is an engaging, well-written book. Allison offers just the right mix of academic findings and pop-culture references and provocations. This original work raises important questions and then answers them with vim, precision, and rigor.” -- Jules Boykoff * author of Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London *"Engendering Fandom: Audience Building in Women’s Professional Soccer" by Rachel Allison * The Society Pages - Engaging Sports *"A Sociological View on Selling Women’s Soccer: A Conversation with Dr. Rachel Allison," by RJ Allen * Backline Soccer *"One of the most comprehensive books on women and sport to come out in recent years....Those working in sport—including and perhaps especially men—to pick up this book and read it with an open mind." * Gender & Society *"Allison convincingly demonstrates the systematic marginalization of women’s athletics and athletes, who nonetheless challenge the inequalities they routinely face. Recommended." * Choice *"Despite growing audience, women's soccer still fighting for respect, says journalist," CBC "The Current" interview with Rachel Allison https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/despite-growing-audience-women-s-soccer-still-fighting-for-respect-says-journalist-1.5166142 * CBC "The Current" *"The sexism behind the ‘controversy’ over the U.S. women’s soccer team’s 13 goals," by Rachel Allisonhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/14/sexism-behind-controversy-over-us-womens-soccer-teams-goals/?utm_term=.82bdd447ef0a * Washington Post *"Allison’s study reveals a complex field were women in sports have to navigate a thorny terrain – not be too feminine and sexy, not too butch, but still professional and gaining attention." * Idrottsforum *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Kicking Center 1 Women’s Soccer in the United States 2 Business or Cause? Contested Goals 3 We’re Taking Over! Constructing the Fan Base 4 Image Politics and Media (In)Visibility Conclusion: Kicking Forward? Appendices Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs a rhetorician who draws on both critical theory and culture, John Sloop seeks to read soccer as the game intersects with gender, race, sexuality, and class. The result of this engagement is a sense of both enormous possibility and real constraint.Trade ReviewSoccer’s Neoliberal Pitch will interest scholars in a number of fields, including communication, sport studies, American studies, and cultural studies. It offers an interesting and engaging account of how meanings of soccer’s past and present are subtly shaped by economic and cultural forces." —Thomas Oates, author of Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL

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Book SynopsisIn articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist José Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends.Trade Review“Domingos’s study goes far beyond similar ones of football in African and Latin American settings. He aims to put the bodies of men in Lourenço Marques at the center of a cultural and social history of the colonial city, and manages this with powerful insight and a fair degree of grace. This is a magnificent history of football in a colonial city in southern Africa.”“More than just a sports history, Football and Colonialism employs soccer as a prism through which to trace the shifting interactions between Africans and Europeans in Lourenço Marques. As Domingos effortlessly oscillates between colonial policy and indigenous response, he brings the city alive, and at the heart of the text are the African players themselves.”“[Following the Ball and Football and Colonialism] convincingly demonstrate that the histories of Mozambican football and of African migrants in Portugal have value and deserve to be told in their own right. … Individually and together, these impressive books greatly deepen our knowledge and understanding of football and society in Africa and Europe. I highly recommend them to specialists and general readers interested in sport, African Studies, and globalization.” * Idrottsforum *Nuno Domingos’ Football and Colonialism offers amazing insight into football in colonial Mozambique and represents a very important addition to the academic literature on football. As a well-researched work that integrates sociological and anthropological theory seamlessly into the historical narrative, it will also be of immense value to students of African history, colonial history, urban studies, as well as to those with an interest in popular culture and sports more generally. * African Studies Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisIn articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist José Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends.Trade Review“Domingos’s study goes far beyond similar ones of football in African and Latin American settings. He aims to put the bodies of men in Lourenço Marques at the center of a cultural and social history of the colonial city, and manages this with powerful insight and a fair degree of grace. This is a magnificent history of football in a colonial city in southern Africa.”“More than just a sports history, Football and Colonialism employs soccer as a prism through which to trace the shifting interactions between Africans and Europeans in Lourenço Marques. As Domingos effortlessly oscillates between colonial policy and indigenous response, he brings the city alive, and at the heart of the text are the African players themselves.”“[Following the Ball and Football and Colonialism] convincingly demonstrate that the histories of Mozambican football and of African migrants in Portugal have value and deserve to be told in their own right. … Individually and together, these impressive books greatly deepen our knowledge and understanding of football and society in Africa and Europe. I highly recommend them to specialists and general readers interested in sport, African Studies, and globalization.” * Idrottsforum *Nuno Domingos’ Football and Colonialism offers amazing insight into football in colonial Mozambique and represents a very important addition to the academic literature on football. As a well-researched work that integrates sociological and anthropological theory seamlessly into the historical narrative, it will also be of immense value to students of African history, colonial history, urban studies, as well as to those with an interest in popular culture and sports more generally. * African Studies Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisFrom bestselling author David Wangerin, a history of America's curious relationship with the beautiful gameTrade Review"Wangerin presents a remarkable history of soccer in America. The seventh book in Temple’s 'Sporting' series is one of the best recently published soccer books. Wangerin (Soccer in a Football World) provides a look at American soccer from the inside—not simply the records and statistics but the behind-the-scenes evolution of the U.S. game through club, college, and pro soccer. Also featured is the role of the city of St Louis in the rise of American soccer. VERDICT Best of all, Wangerin’s passion for the game combined with his keen insight make his book an essential read for soccer and sports fans everywhere. Highly recommended." —Library JournalTable of ContentsWorthy Diversions. An Introduction1. "Here they come!"2. Foreign bodies and freezing fans3. Bullets4. Mild Bill5. Dash, Desperation and Deviltry 6. California Gold7. Shot Out in Jersey

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Book SynopsisGrant Farred examines the careers of international soccer stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, separation, and belonging.Trade Review"[Farred] draws examples from the world of sport to examine the state of being in relation, most notably international soccer superstars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, considering their relations to fans, teammates, and coaches. He also reflexively draws on his own sporting experiences in the US and South Africa, considering his relations to fans as experienced throughout his life. The result is a comprehensive philosophical meditation on sport, showing how this can be applied to more fully understand how a self is constituted and reconstituted in relation to others." -- J. R. Mitrano * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxv Introduction. Entre-Nous: Between the World and Me 1 1. A Condemned Man: Between the Nation and the Autonomista 29 Interlude. "Nog Lansur!" 97 2. The Shame of Loving the Condemned: The Philosophy of Óscar Washington Tabárez 163 Postscript 219 Notes 225 Bibliography 251 Index 253

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Book SynopsisGrant Farred examines the careers of international soccer stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and the intertwined experiences of relation, separation, and belonging.Trade Review"[Farred] draws examples from the world of sport to examine the state of being in relation, most notably international soccer superstars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, considering their relations to fans, teammates, and coaches. He also reflexively draws on his own sporting experiences in the US and South Africa, considering his relations to fans as experienced throughout his life. The result is a comprehensive philosophical meditation on sport, showing how this can be applied to more fully understand how a self is constituted and reconstituted in relation to others." -- J. R. Mitrano * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxv Introduction. Entre-Nous: Between the World and Me 1 1. A Condemned Man: Between the Nation and the Autonomista 29 Interlude. "Nog Lansur!" 97 2. The Shame of Loving the Condemned: The Philosophy of Óscar Washington Tabárez 163 Postscript 219 Notes 225 Bibliography 251 Index 253

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Book SynopsisSince he was a young adult, Grant Farred has wandered the world. Born in South Africa, his own personal growth was fueled by dreams of English football, as a player, and then, when age and reality set in, as a fan. Coming to the United States at a still young age, Farred still loved football -- especially Liverpool -- and watched it from afar. Writing about his experience, Farred shares with the reader his experience growing up colored in South Africa, moving to England, and finally to the US, and how his passion for football kept company with his many moves. Along the way, he talks about the contradictions of football; how race and class politics mix on and off the pitch; how Farred's own ideas about what it means to be a colonial subject is both reinforced and liberated by the idea of football, and how players can serve as gods and mosnters. Trade Review"A fascinating exploration of a sporting obsession conducted across continents and political divides. Grant Farred's narrative shows how sport both transcends and embodies politics, how close you can get and how far away you will always remain from your sporting heroes. Just as American businessmen have started to buy into English soccer in order to profit from its global appeal, this book provides a powerful explanation of the breadth and depth of the passion that the game can evoke." Stefan Szymanski, Cass Business School, London "That Farred writes well about football is beyond debate. He brings a distinctive passion to the topic along with a wealth of analytic insights that will please readers versed in the rich lore of the sport and alert to its growing status as an exemplary vehicle of globalization." Andrew Ross, New York University "More than a love letter to his beloved Liverpool Football Club, this is a journey into the present, from Farred's early years as an outcast in apartheid South Africa through Videla's Argentina and Franco's Spain to the docklands of Liverpool. It is a journey as much spiritual as temporal by a long-distance fan who reads like a latter-day Bill Shankly, albeit with the style and sophistication of a scholar." Bill Murray, author of The World's game: A History of Soccer and The Old Firm: Sectarianism, sport and society in Scotland "Remarkable...In delightfully exuberant prose, Farred recounts a passion that, for him, borders on religion... Long Distance Love is a playful -- yet no less brilliant -- work of political theory; its contribution to political thought comes from making such hopeful statements without compromising the immoderate passions that sports fandom indulge." Centre Daily TimesTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Talk, Drinks, and Dinner with GodChapter 1Long Distance Love: Growing Up a Liverpool Football Club FanChapter 2Som més que un club, però menys que una nació.“More than a Club but Less than a Nation.Chapter 3Careless Whispers: The Doubleness of Spanish LoveChapter 4:At Home, Out of PlaceChapter 5:God's Team: The Painful Pleasure of the Miracle on the Bosphorus Chapter 6:The Gerrard Final

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Book SynopsisThe early history of soccer in the United States has received relatively little scholarly attention. While the sport's failure to make cultural inroads has been the source of much reflection and retrospection, other pastimes such as baseball, basketball, and American football have been covered far more extensively. Soccer Frontiers helps to fill this gap and correct the widespread notion that soccer was unfamiliar in the United States before the late twentieth century.Editors Chris Bolsmann and George N. Kioussis's collection sheds light on America's little-known soccer history by focusing on the game's presence in major American cities between 1863 and 1913. As waves of immigrants arrived and American cities began to industrialize and become sizable cultural hubs, soccer, too, began to flourish. With essays focused on the years between the Civil War and World War I—a period which saw the creation of both the English Football Association and the US Soccer Federation—this volume also offers diverse regional representation, moving from New England to the South to the West Coast.Soccer Frontiers seeks to identify the distinctive yet understudied traits of American soccer, thereby contributing an important missing piece to the broader puzzle of American sport history.

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Book SynopsisAustralian women’s football rides high on the sporting landscape now, but this book shows that success has been one-hundred years in the making. It shares stories of triumph in the face of overwhelming odds, and tales of heartbreak and obstacles that seem insurmountable. But it is also about community, endurance and collective success.Eye-opening and celebratory, it tells the story of amateur women kicking a ball around a century ago to Australia’s national team being one of the best in the world. The Matildas are forty years old and no longer have to wear hand-me-down men’s kits, pay for their own medical insurance and do it all for love not money. But there have been no free kicks along the way as they have faced prejudice and even outright hostility.Never Say Die takes in dusty archives, rainy pitch-side evenings and heart-breaking and heart-warming interviews – including with FIFA and FFA board members, Matildas past and present, W-League coaches and players, state and club administrators. But at its heart are fans from every level of the game who could not love it more.Written by two football fanatics, with access to key figures in Australian women’s football, the book shows that the overnight success of Australian women’s football has been one hundred years in the making.

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive Handbook, John Goddard and Peter Sloane present a collection of analytical contributions by internationally regarded scholars in the field, which extensively examine the many economic challenges facing the world's most popular team sport.The Handbook is naturally divided into four parts: the product market, the labour market, country studies of individual leagues and policy issues. The authors explore why so many football clubs face financial difficulties despite the fact that attendances have risen in many countries, and television and commercial income has increased dramatically. They explain that the labour market is central to understanding these issues, due to trends such as increased bargaining power for the leading players, the acceleration of migration, and the internationalization of the market for footballing talent at the top level. There is, however, diversity across countries as shown in the six cases of England, France, Italy, The Netherlands, the USA and Japan. Finally, the authors consider the policy issues, including the betting market, refereeing and corruption.This Handbook will appeal to sports economists, as well as those working in football governing bodies and individual clubs, sports journalists, and students of business.Contributors: W. Andreff, R. Baker, C.P. Barros, T. Boeri, S. Bridgewater, B. Buraimo, F. Carmichael, E. Couto, P. Dawson, P. Downward, D. Forrest, B. Frick, B. Gerrard, J. Goddard, J. Horne, T. Jewell, S. Kesenne, R. Koning, W. Manzenreiter, I. McHale, S. Morrow, D. Owen, R. Poli, J. Reade, B. Reilly, A. Samagaio, B. Severgnini, R. Simmons, P. Sloane, S. Szymanski, D. ThomasTrade Review‘An invaluable complement to professional journals for those whose day job is understanding, teaching, researching, or effecting public policy on any number of sports-economics matters.’ -- A.R. Sanderson, ChoiceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction John Goddard and Peter Sloane PART 1 THE PRODUCT MARKET 1. Club Objectives P. Sloane 2. The Promotion and Relegation System J. Goddard 3. Measurement of Competitive Balance and Uncertainty of Outcome D. Owen 4. Spectator Demand and Attendances in English League Football B. Buraimo 5. The Collection and Distribution of Media Rights in a Win Maximisation League S. Kesenne 6. Football Finances S. Morrow 7. Insolvency in English Football S. Szymanski 8. Sponsorship and Football S. Bridgewater 9. Econometric modelling of Match Results and Scores I. McHale and Rose Baker PART 2 THE LABOUR MARKET 10. Team Performance : Production Efficiency in Football F. Carmichael and D. Thomas 11. Management Ability, Strategy, Tactics and Team Performance C. Pestana Barros, E. Couto and A. Samagaio 12. Achieving Transactional Efficiency in Professional Team Sports; The Theory and Practice of Player Valuation W. Gerrard 13. The Footballers’ Labour Market after the Bosman Ruling B. Frick and R. Simmons 14. International Migration of Professional Footballers R. Poli 15. Labour Market Discrimination B. Reilly 16. The Football Manager J. Goddard PART 3 COUNTRY STUDIES 17. English Professional Football P. Downward 18. French Professional Football: How Much Different? W. Andreff 19. The Decline of Professional Football in Italy T. Boeri and B. Severgnini 20. Professional Soccer in the Netherlands R. Koning 21. Major League Soccer in the USA T. Jewell 22. Professional Football in Japan W. Manzenreiter and J. Horne PART 4 POLICY ISSUES 23. Football and Betting D. Forrest 24. Refereeing and Infringement of the Rules P. Dawson 25. Detecting Corruption in Football J. Reade Index

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC. Football has huge political and social capital in Latin America, and has often been rhetorically deployed by governments for various ends; rarely, however, has football’s power and potential been used in such a deliberate, strategic and active way towards a national peace process and targeted such enduring divisions that have historically impeded a sense of a united nation and national identity. Football in Colombia is understood popularly as one of the few things capable of uniting the country, a belief that Santos seized upon as the national team had a successful campaign in the 2014 World Cup. This first book on Colombian football in English explores previous iterations of football nationalism in the country, including the El Dorado and ‘Narcofootball’ eras, before analysing Santos’ three-pronged strategy empowering professional and amateur football, including the use of political speeches and Twitter, legislation and public policy, and Sport for Development and Peace campaigns, with a particular focus on football in the FARC demobilisation and reincorporation camps following the historic peace agreement.Table of ContentsGlossaryTable and illustrations indexIntroductionChapter 1: Football and nation in Latin AmericaChapter 2: ‘Football is the only thing that unites us’: A history of football nationalism in ColombiaChapter 3: ‘#VamosColombia’: The footballization of Colombia and nation-building by Santos through speeches and tweetsChapter 4: ‘The route for action’: Football-specific legislation and public policyChapter 5: Football for peace: football-based government SDP campaigns towards nation buildingConclusion: #OneCountryOnAPitch?AcknowledgementsReferencesNewspapers and WebsitesFilms and VideosPersonal Interviews

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Book SynopsisThis original Research Handbook examines the key legal aspects of a professional football club’s actions. Reflecting also on the role of key governing bodies such as UEFA, the Handbook informs and contributes to the ongoing debate surrounding the governance and behaviours of professional football clubs. By placing professional clubs at the centre of the analysis, the Handbook offers an extensive overview of how law, particularly at a European level, is applied to professional football. Chapters explore key actors within the industry, from prominent governing bodies to players, examining how significant club changes such as transfers affect the economic and legal management of clubs. At a time when professional football is coming under increasing scrutiny, this Handbook will encourage critical thinking on the future of clubs’ design, organisation and function. This illuminating Research Handbook will be of interest to law and business students endeavouring to investigate sports law and governance. It will additionally be beneficial to policymakers, along with legal and business actors, who are working with professional football clubs and seeking to reflect critically on industry features and legalities.Trade Review‘This Research Handbook offers a thoughtful and systematic analysis of the most relevant issues surrounding professional football clubs’ law and governance. It is a timely and original work, which will enable academics, professionals and students to approach a wide range of topics from a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and practitioners.’ -- Carmen Pérez González, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain‘Football law involves increasingly complex considerations. This legal handbook reflects the challenges of a legal nature that arise as a result of the commercialization and internationalization of professional football and is a must-read for football lawyers and others involved in the football industry.’ -- Espen Auberg, formerly Head of Legal at the Norwegian FA and Attorney-at-Law, Advokatfirmaet NOVA DA, Oslo, Norway‘With three cases pending before the Court of Justice of the EU in 2023, professional football's governance confronts a perfect storm. The judges can pave the way for reform of football's governance. This book and its editor deserve praise for their approach, highlighting the importance of the law for professional football and clubs in particular, and inspiring critical thinking.’ -- Jean-Louis Dupont, Lawyer and Member of the Barcelona Bar, Dupont-Hissel, Spain‘This book is a must have for all those interested in football and the law. It covers all material aspects relevant to professional football clubs. Importantly, it critically assesses professional football's governance and elucidates its complex relationship with the EU rule of law, whilst at the same time providing food for thought on what sustainable professional football for the future could look like.’ -- José Ángel Sánchez, Chief Executive Officer, Real Madrid, Spain‘This Handbook, which focuses on the Law of Professional Football Clubs, features contributions from leading experts on various aspects of professional football, including organization, licensing, financial fair play, finances, players and compliance, corporate social responsibility, and dispute resolution. As we approach a crucial year for the future of European football, it is important to consider these topics from different academic perspectives.’ -- Sergio González García, University Rey Juan Carlos, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Law of Professional Football Clubs 1 Robby Houben PART I THE ORGANISATION OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL 1 The football industry 7 Tom Bason and Benoit Senaux 2 Organisation of European professional football: A stakeholder theory analysis 29 Richard Parrish 3 The European football competition model (under stress) 48 Katarina Pijetlovic 4 Scoring across the pond—a comparison of football governance models 72 William W. Berry III and William N. Morris PART II LICENSING AND FINANCIAL FAIR PLAY 5 Professional football club licensing in Europe 90 Wino van Veen 6 Owning a football club 116 Siniša Petrović 7 Financial fair play and financial monitoring in Europe 135 Christopher Flanagan 8 Managing more than a football club 161 Hallgeir Gammelsæter PART III FINANCING PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL CLUBS 9 The football club as media supplier: Media rights 176 Steve Cornelius 10 Commercial contracts: Sponsoring and ticketing 194 Shaun Star and Joost Vynckier 11 The football stadium 218 Andrea Cattaneo 12 The listed football club 237 Michiel De Muynck and Lennert Poelmans PART IV PLAYERS 13 The status and role of players in the football industry 259 Michele Colucci and Roy Vermeer 14 Player transfers 275 F.M. (Frans) de Weger and D.J. (Dannick) Luckson 15 Football agents 305 Stephen Weatherill 16 Taxation of professional football players and football clubs 326 Anne Van de Vijver and Karolina Tetłak PART V COMPLIANCE, CSR AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION 17 Compliance and money laundering in professional football: An evolving field 349 Niels Appermont and William Bull 18 Social responsibility, stakeholders and professional football clubs: From ‘window-dressing’ to civic wealth creation 370 Annette Greenhow 19 Dispute resolution in professional football 394 Jacopo Tognon and Priscilla Bortolin PART VI CONCLUDING REMARKS Concluding remarks 408 Robby Houben Index

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Book SynopsisThe football industry has long been the subject of theoretical and empirical analysis by economists. A study of the economics of football throws up a range of intriguing questions - from what determines the level of attendance at football matches to how efficient football managers are in producing team performance, given the playing resources available. This important collection considers these and other questions - such as: What drives the transfer value of players? How has the changing structure of football's labour market affected sporting and financial outcomes? How effective have football leagues been in maintaining competitive balance? Do football clubs seek to maximise profits? How predictable are football matches? Is the football betting market efficient?This authoritative two volume collection pulls together the work of leading sports economists over the last five decades to answer these and other questions using consumer theory, labour economics, industrial organisation and a range of other theoretical insights combined with econometric analysis. These innovative volumes bring together a careful synthesis of applied economics that will be of interest to all those concerned with analysing the real world.Trade Review‘The Economics of Association Football has a well-deserved spot on my bookshelf. In a technically competent and eminently readable style, with many new insights, Professor Gerrard provides the essential converge (demand, supply, labor, league structure, industrial performance) and much more. We get the first comprehensive treatment of betting market efficiency determined by actual match outcomes. And we are all better off from his impressive comparison of open leagues (promotion and relegation) and closed leagues (North American style). In the vernacular "a master on the sports business pitch scores a clear goal".' -- Rodney D. Fort, Washington State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Bill Gerrard PART I ATTENDANCE DEMAND 1. R.A. Hart, J. Hutton and T. Sharot (1975), ‘A Statistical Analysis of Association Football Attendances’ 2. Peter J.W.N. Bird (1982), ‘The Demand for League Football’ 3. Nicholas Jennett (1984), ‘Attendances, Uncertainty of Outcome and Policy in Scottish League Football’ 4. Bruce Walker (1986), ‘The Demand for Professional League Football and the Success of Football League Teams: Some City Size Effects’ 5. David Peel and Dennis Thomas (1988), ‘Outcome Uncertainty and the Demand for Football: An Analysis of Match Attendances in the English Football League’ 6. S.M. Dobson and J.A. Goddard (1992), ‘The Demand for Standing and Seated Viewing Accommodation in the English Football League’ 7. S.M. Dobson and J.A. Goddard (1995), ‘The Demand for Professional League Football in England and Wales, 1925–92’ 8. Mark Baimbridge, Samuel Cameron and Peter Dawson (1996), ‘Satellite Television and the Demand for Football: A Whole New Ball Game?’ 9. Robert Simmons (1996), ‘The Demand for English League Football: A Club-level Analysis’ 10. David Forrest and Robert Simmons (2002), ‘Outcome Uncertainty and Attendance Demand in Sport: The Case of English Soccer’ 11. David Forrest, Robert Simmons and Patrick Feehan (2002), ‘A Spatial Cross-sectional Analysis of the Elasticity of Demand for Soccer’ PART II THE SPORTING PRODUCTION FUNCTION 12. Richard Audas, Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (1997), ‘Team Performance and Managerial Change in the English Football League’ 13. Rick Audas, Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (1999), ‘Organizational Performance and Managerial Turnover’ 14. Fiona Carmichael, Dennis Thomas and Robert Ward (2000), ‘Team Performance: The Case of English Premiership Football’ 15. Peter Dawson, Stephen Dobson and Bill Gerrard (2000), ‘Estimating Coaching Efficiency in Professional Team Sports: Evidence from English Association Football’ 16. Dieter J. Haas (2003), ‘Technical Efficiency in the Major League Soccer’ 17. R.H. Koning (2003), ‘An Econometric Evaluation of the Effect of Firing a Coach on Team Performance’ PART III THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS’ LABOUR MARKET AND TRANSFER SYSTEM 18. Peter J. Sloane (1969), ‘The Labour Market in Professional Football’ 19. F. Carmichael and D. Thomas (1993), ‘Bargaining in the Transfer Market: Theory and Evidence’ 20. Robert Simmons (1997), ‘Implications of the Bosman Ruling for Football Transfer Markets’ 21. Alan Speight and Dennis Thomas (1997), ‘Arbitrator Decision-making in the Transfer Market: An Empirical Analysis’ 22. Fiona Carmichael, David Forrest and Robert Simmons (1999), ‘The Labour Market in Association Football: Who Gets Transferred and For How Much?’ 23. Peter Antonioni and John Cubbin (2000), ‘The Bosman Ruling and the Emergence of a Single Market in Soccer Talent’ 24. Thomas Ericson (2000), ‘The Bosman Case: Effects on the Abolition of the Transfer Fee’ 25. Bill Gerrard and Steve Dobson (2000), ‘Testing for Monopoly Rents in the Market for Playing Talent: Evidence from English Professional Football’ 26. Stefan Szymanski (2000), ‘A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues’ 27. Spiros Bougheas and Paul Downward (2003), ‘The Economics of Professional Sports Leagues: Some Insights on the Reform of Transfer Markets’ 28. Eberhard Feess and Gerd Muehlheusser (2003), ‘Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football’ 29. Claudio Lucifora and Rob Simmons (2003), ‘Superstar Effects in Sport: Evidence from Italian Soccer’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I COMPETITIVE BALANCE AND LEAGUE STRUCTURE 1. N. Jennett and P.J. Sloane (1985), ‘The Future League Football: A Critique of the Report of the Chester Committee of Enquiry’ 2. John A. Cairns (1987), ‘Evaluating Changes in League Structure: The Reorganization of the Scottish Football League’ 3. Thomas Hoehn and Stefan Szymanski (1999), ‘The Americanization of European Football’ 4. Stefan Szymanski (2001), ‘Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer’ 5. Roger G. Noll (2002), ‘The Economics of Promotion and Relegation in Sports Leagues: The Case of English Football’ 6. Luigi Buzzacchi, Stefan Szymanski and Tommaso M. Valletti (2003), ‘Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance’ 7. Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (2004), ‘Revenue Divergence and Competitive Balance in a Divisional Sports League’ PART II INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE 8. Peter J. Sloane (1971), ‘The Economics of Professional Football: The Football Club as a Utility Maximiser’ 9. Stefan Szymanski and Ron Smith (1997), ‘The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure’ 10. S.M. Dobson and J.A. Goddard (1998), ‘Performance and Revenue in Professional League Football: Evidence from Granger Causality Tests’ 11. Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (1998), ‘Performance, Revenue, and Cross Subsidization in the Football League, 1927–1994’ 12. Stephen Dobson, John Goddard and Carlyn Ramlogan (2001), ‘Revenue Convergence in the English Soccer League’ 13. Stephen Hall, Stefan Szymanski and Andrew S. Zimbalist (2002), ‘Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll: The Cases of Major League Baseball and English Soccer’ 14. Bill Gerrard (2005), ‘A Resource-Utilization Model of Organizational Efficiency in Professional Sports Teams’ PART III MATCH PREDICTION AND BETTING MARKET EFFICIENCY 15. Peter F. Pope and David A. Peel (1989), ‘Information, Prices and Efficiency in a Fixed-Odds Betting Market’ 16. Mark J. Dixon and Stuart G. Coles (1997), ‘Modelling Association Football Scores and Inefficiencies in the Football Betting Market’ 17. Michael Cain, David Law and David Peel (2000), ‘The Favourite-longshot Bias and Market Efficiency in UK Football Betting’ 18. David Forrest and Robert Simmons (2000), ‘Forecasting Sport: The Behaviour and Performance of Football Tipsters’ 19. David Forrest and Robert Simmons (2000), ‘Making Up the Results: The Work of the Football Pools Panel, 1963–1997’ 20. Tim Kuypers (2000), ‘Information and Efficiency: An Empirical Study of a Fixed Odds Betting Market’ 21. Martin Crowder, Mark Dixon, Anthony Ledford and Mike Robinson (2002), ‘Dynamic Modelling and Prediction of English Football League Matches for Betting’ PART IV INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 22. Ruud H. Koning (2000), ‘Balance in Competition in Dutch Soccer’ 23. Jaume García and Plácido Rodríguez (2002), ‘The Determinants of Football Match Attendance Revisited: Empirical Evidence From the Spanish Football League’ 24. Manuel Espitia-Escuer and Lucía Isabel García-Cebrián (2004), ‘Measuring the Efficiency of Spanish First-Division Soccer Teams’ Name Index

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