
Tag Archives: football
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Isolation Reading for the Week of May 25
Every week we’re bringing you some great books chosen by our staff for your work-from-home reading. This week, Craig Blue, our Digital Marketing Coordinator, has chosen Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football as his staff pick. Enjoy! -
Uncontested Fields? Global Football and the Coronavirus
Football, just like almost everything on the international sports calendar, has been greatly impacted by the recent coronavirus outbreak. Alan McDougall, author of the recently released Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football, writes about the impact COVID-19 is having on football, and delves into the history of a sport that has faced many major disruptions across its 150-year history. -
World Cup 2014: Politics, Identity, and the Global Game
Author Kirk Bowman provides a post-tournament summary of the politics and identity issues at play in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. -
Global Lessons from the Beautiful Game
Read an excerpt on the limits of soccer as an opiate of the masses from a forthcoming book by Felipe Arocena and Kirk Bowman...
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