Approximately a year after moving to the southeastern United States to gather evidence for a book on the Latino diaspora, investigative journalist Paul Cuadros chose to start a soccer team at Jordan-Matthews High School in Siler City, North Carolina instead. Upon reading his book A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires… Read More »
To think of football as just as a game is to ignore not only its relationship to national identities, but also its instrumental role in forging these identities. In his book Fútbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America, Joshua Nadel sheds valuable light on this role by examining the impact of football in Argentina, Honduras,… Read More »
Until 2014, the story of Robbie Rogers—an American professional soccer player who plays for the LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer—had been told by the media. In his 2014 autobiography Coming Out to Play, Rogers fills the gaps left in the media’s shorthand narrative of his life as the first openly gay athlete to play… Read More »
In his book The Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt expertly captures the sweeping economic, political, and social changes of British society in the post-Thatcher era through his analysis of football. The sheer scale of football and its central place in British cultural life renders the sport a ripe medium for exploring Britain’s changing character.… Read More »
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