How Soccer Explains The World
filed in Media: Books & Lit. on Jan.23, 2006
I’m at the midway point through this book and it is just fantastic. I really wish I had more time to sit and read 50 pages at a time, but my reading schedule is usually in 10-15 minute stints. My awesome wife Kate [cozy blog] bought this and another book for me. I was immediately attracted to this subject matter since I played soccer since I was a 4-year-old. My final season was my 3rd year of college.
Franklin Foer takes the reader on a global journey to the darkest shadows cast by soccer stadiums. He gets up close and personal to some of the worlds most infamous and dangerous soccer hooligans, all while showing the impact that the sport of soccer has had on it’s local communities and globally. It has been fascinating.
The book is called: How Soccer Explains The World: An {Unlikely} Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer [Amazon]
January 24th, 2006 on 7:50 pm
This book is in my queue for the next big book shipment down from the States so I’m glad to have a glowing recommendation. I’ve been reading a lot of these “history of the world according to _________” books. Coffee, wine, paper, tattoos, and soon.. futbol. It’s been a fascinating way of learning about the world through my own interests. And how else would I know that Lloyds of London was originally a coffeehouse where ship owners would meet to anxiously await news of their ships and, over time, started making bets on whether their goods would arrive safely or not?
January 25th, 2006 on 4:29 am
I think I’d probably stop short of calling my post a “glowing recommendation”. Though I do like the book very much and would have loved to have been able to actually write a glowing recommendation. I just don’t think that qualified. 🙂
January 25th, 2006 on 7:22 am
I’ll put it on my list!
January 25th, 2006 on 2:16 pm
Oh, yes, now that I have reread your post, I see that you wrote a glowing recommendation of your “awesome wife”. The book was simply “fascinating.” Semantics are always my downfall. 😉
January 25th, 2006 on 2:35 pm
Oh, I live for semantics. 😉