Global and local football : politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU / Gary Armstrong and Jon P. Mitchell.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Armstrong, Gary, 1960-

Contributor:

• Mitchell, Jon P.

Series:

• Routledge critical studies in sport

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Soccer--Malta--History.
• Soccer--Political aspects--Malta.
• Soccer--Social aspects--Malta.
• Sports and globalization--Malta.
• Manners and customs.
• Sports and globalization.
• Soccer--Social aspects.
• Soccer--Political aspects.
• Soccer.
• History.
• Malta--Social life and customs.
• Malta.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Contents:

• Team selection : producing the nation
• New tactics : producing difference
• Football and politics : traditions and modernities
• Playing to the big men : patronage and party
• Professions of faith : footballing modernities
• The bigger they come : the price of football
• All the president's men : follow the money
• Getting into Europe : global flows of talent
• Foreign fan clubs : the global in the local epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-206) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780415350174
• 0415350174
• 9780203607480
• 0203607481

OCLC:

174112629