A01=Simon Kuper
Author_Simon Kuper
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=SFBC
COP=United States
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Format=BC
HMM=210
IMPN=Nation Books
ISBN13=9781568586335
Language_English
PA=To order
PD=20100406
POP=New York
Price=€10 to €20
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PUB=Avalon Publishing Group
Subject=Sports & Outdoor Recreation
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Product details
- ISBN 9781568586335
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2010
- Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: New York, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently. Kuper meets a remarkable variety of fans along the way, from the East Berliner persecuted by the Stasi for supporting his local team, to the Argentine general with his own views on tactics. He also illuminates the frightening intersection between soccer and politics, particularly in the wake of the attacks of 9-11, where soccer is obsessed over by the likes of Osama bin Laden. The result is one of the world's most acclaimed books on the game, and an astonishing study of soccer and its place in the world.
Simon Kuper was born in Uganda in 1969. He has lived (and played and watched soccer) in Holland, Germany, the USA and England, and has written on soccer for publications all over the world, including the New York Times. He now works for the Financial Times. He studied history and German at Oxford University and supports Ajax Amsterdam, but not all that passionately.
