A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 'Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians' Mail on Sunday 'A globe-trotting magnum opus' Tobias Jones, Sunday Times
In the twenty-first century, football is first. First among sports themselves, but it also now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon. Nations, peoples and neighbourhoods across the globe imagine and invent themselves through playing and following the game.
In The Age of Football, David Goldblatt charts football's global cultural ascent, its economic transformation and its deep politicization, taking in prison football in Uganda and amputee football in Angola, the role of football fans in the Arab Spring, the footballing presidencies of Bolivia's Evo Morales and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, China's declared intention to both host and win the World Cup by 2050, and the FIFA corruption scandal.
Following the intersection of the game with money, power and identity, The Age of Football is the account of how football has come to define every facet of our social, economic and cultural lives and at what cost, shaping who we think we are and who we want to be.
David Goldblatt was born in 1965 and inherited, for his sins, Tottenham Hotspurs from his father. He has published highly acclaimed books of football: The Ball is Round, an astonishingly ambitious global history of the game, Futebol Nation, a footballing history of Brazil, and The Game of Our Lives about the meaning and making of English football, which won the 2015 William Sports Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He has also edited the World Football Yearbook, made sporting documentaries for BBC Radio, reviewed sports books for the TLS and the Guardian and taught the sociology of sport at Bristol University, De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
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A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 'Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians' Mail on Sunday 'A globe-trotting magnum opus' Tobias Jones, Sunday Times
In the twenty-first century, football is first. First among sports themselves, but it also now commands the allegiance, interest and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon. Nations, peoples and neighbourhoods across the globe imagine and invent themselves through playing and following the game.
In The Age of Football, David Goldblatt charts football's global cultural ascent, its economic transformation and its deep politicization, taking in prison football in Uganda and amputee football in Angola, the role of football fans in the Arab Spring, the footballing presidencies of Bolivia's Evo Morales and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, China's declared intention to both host and win the World Cup by 2050, and the FIFA corruption scandal.
Following the intersection of the game with money, power and identity, The Age of Football is the account of how football has come to define every facet of our social, economic and cultural lives and at what cost, shaping who we think we are and who we want to be.
David Goldblatt was born in 1965 and inherited, for his sins, Tottenham Hotspurs from his father. He has published highly acclaimed books of football: The Ball is Round, an astonishingly ambitious global history of the game, Futebol Nation, a footballing history of Brazil, and The Game of Our Lives about the meaning and making of English football, which won the 2015 William Sports Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He has also edited the World Football Yearbook, made sporting documentaries for BBC Radio, reviewed sports books for the TLS and the Guardian and taught the sociology of sport at Bristol University, De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
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David Goldblatt was born in 1965 and inherited, for his sins, Tottenham Hotspurs from his father. He has published highly acclaimed books of football: The Ball is Round, an astonishingly ambitious global history of the game, Futebol Nation, a footballing history of Brazil, and The Game of Our Lives about the meaning and making of English football, which won the 2015 William Sports Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He has also edited the World Football Yearbook, made sporting documentaries for BBC Radio, reviewed sports books for the TLS and the Guardian and taught the sociology of sport at Bristol University, De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.
David Goldblatt is not merely the best football historian writing
today, he is possibly the best there has ever been
*The Sunday Times*
Praise for The Games:
Goldblatt has become arguably the premier anglophone sports
historian. Unflinching before millennia worth of material, he tells
the Olympic story from the ancient Greeks to today’s festival of
sponsors. This book is illuminating, erudite, fair-minded,
readable, told at a cracking pace, and puts the Games in their
social and political context.
*The Financial Times*
Praise for The Game of Our Lives:
Not just the best soccer book in many years but an exemplary
account of the changing character of British society in the
post-Thatcher era.
*Prof David Runciman, The Wall Street Journal*
Praise for Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil
Goldblatt has a knack for putting football into its socio-economic
context, a gift for synthesis, and frightening eloquence.
*The Financial Times*
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