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Moving with the Ball: The Migration of Professional Footballers

Autor Pierre Lanfranchi, Matthew Taylor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 ian 2001
As a universal game, association football has been particularly suited to the transfer of labour forces. It does not require the use of a specific national language, a recognized diploma or acquired qualification, and the rules are standardized across the globe. Thus the international football market could be considered an ideal example of a transnational and multicultural employment sector. Role models throughout the history of professional football have not necessarily come from the town, nation, racial group or religious denomination of the majority of supporters, as is seen in the cases of Maradona in Naples, the German Bert Trautmann after the Second World War, and more recently the Frenchman Eric Cantona in Manchester, the Cameroonese Milla in France, and the Argentinian Di Stefano in Madrid. Football provides a particularly revealing lens through which to examine changes in national styles and stereotypes as they have been (and still are) reflected in the search for identities in sporting heroes.In this book, the authors consider the movement of football labour from the late nineteenth-century to the present day within the framework of international migration as a whole. Emphasis is given to the initial role of the British in the early twentieth century and the impact of the earliest South American and Yugoslav football 'wanderers'. The position of African footballers in the postwar period and the failure of America's national league in the 1970s are also discussed, along with the international market for coaches and managers, the development of national playing styles and the immediate consequences and future implications of the Bosman ruling.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781859733073
ISBN-10: 1859733077
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Also available in hardback, 9781859733028 £50.00 (January, 2001)

Notă biografică

Pierre Lanfranchi De Montfort University Matthew Taylor Univerity of Portsmouth

Recenzii

'Professional footballers have always been on the move not only between cities but between countries. This pioneering book illuminates a neglected process and also provides a most satisfying read.'Professor Tony Mason, De Montfort University'New books fly off the presses with amazing regularity. Rarely however does a new football book achieve as much as Moving with the Ball. It approaches football from a remarkably new perspective and, as we might expect from such serious scholars of the game, Moving with the Ball is both historically grounded and sociologically alert. It is the first real story of the players and their migrations; the men who have made the game what it is today. Written in a deft style, here is a book which will appeal to specialist and general reader alike. It is, at once, original and provocative, and will provide an opportunity for subsequent scholars and readers to re--think the history and the current role of this, the globe's dominant game.'Professor Ja