Football Against The Enemy

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Kuper lives in Paris with his wife, the American author Pamela Druckerman, [36] and their three children.

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Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. AT A moment when football is subjecting itself to a billion-dollar version of in vitro fertilisation, this book could hardly have been better timed. Kuper has written several books, starting with the William Hill awarded Football Against the Enemy (1994), which was later released in the United States as Soccer Against the Enemy.And that’s why his journey to discover the heart beating inside every follower of the beautiful game is so revealing.

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He publishes a well-read column in the weekend edition FT Magazine [2] and has twice been awarded the British Society of Magazine Editors' prize for Columnist of the Year. Kuper discusses the culture that surrounds football — such as the Old Firm rivalry — as well as the on-field play. By examining the contexts of both the production and reception of this historical evidence, and highlighting the multiple meanings and social significance of this body of work, the collection provides original, powerful and stimulating insights into the ways in which visual material assists our knowledge and understanding of sport. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Simon Kuper, self-declared footballing anthropologist and the author of the road trip that is Football Against the Enemy , is living proof.There are other factors to consider as well sometimes – as an intriguing display of power is shown in the Old Firm rivalry, with religion rearing its controversial head sometime back. Voters aren’t exactly that easy to segregate by religion – it would be destructive for any politician to do so!

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Later he took such extraordinary measures to attend matches featuring any team from the West that his activities attracted the attention of the secret police and he found himself being trailed around the football grounds of Eastern Europe by a personal Stasi agent. He brought a team of pygmies to Yaoundé, the capital, and locked them up in the stadium cellars and didn’t feed them.SK: In 1990, I was listening to a radio programme about how sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland would hot up around Celtic-Rangers games. He has written on cricket occasionally, with articles on cricket in the Netherlands [22] and cricket in apartheid South Africa. Updated from its original 1994 publication to include a new chapter on soccer in the Middle East and its ties to Islamist jihadism, as well as a new preface and postscript, Soccer Against the Enemy is helpful reading for anyone who is interested in the cultural power and influence of soccer. It is Kuper’s next stop and subject of analysis, and Roger Milla becomes an excellent lens to view the challenges inherent in the continent – as racism and political manoeuvring stifles the game. This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields to explore the ways in which visual culture has shaped, and continues to impact upon, our understanding of sport as an integral element within popular culture.