The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football by David Goldblatt

The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football

David Goldblatt

992 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction sports informative slow-paced
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The definitive book about football. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of football are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The sin...

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