Soccer Against the Enemy: How the Worlds Most Popular Sport Starts and Stops Wars, Fuels Revolutions, and Keeps Dictators in Power by Simon Kuper

Soccer Against the Enemy: How the Worlds Most Popular Sport Starts and Stops Wars, Fuels Revolutions, and Keeps Dictators in Power

Simon Kuper

530 pages • first pub 1994 (view editions)

nonfiction history sports adventurous reflective slow-paced
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Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. For millions, it is a matter of life and death, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have...

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