Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Stars And Stops Wars, Fuels Revolution And Keeps Dictators in Powe

Published for the first time in the U.S. to coincide with the 2006 World Cup, an analysis of the role of professional soccer in world affairs offers insight into the political and cultural factors that come into play between competing nations; in an account that shares the perspectives of fans ranging from a persecuted East Berliner to an Argentine general. Original.