A review by fdterritory
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer

4.0

My only real complaint about this one is the title, and it's hard to hold such a thing against the author since authors often don't title their own works. Foer does an admirable job using soccer to expand on such topics as the inherent racism of the European game, the effects of globalization that has weakened the Brazilian leagues into a feeder for the "real" clubs in the work, and a primer on the Italian game and why they dive so *(@#&$*(#@ much. The book is a quick read and gives exactly as much information as needed to catch many of the nuances of complex systems. Worth a read even if you're not a footy fan.