Bolsmann / Porter English Gentlemen and World Soccer

Corinthians, Amateurism and the Global Game
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-14307-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

The significance of the Corinthians Football Club, founded in 1882, has been widely acknowledged by historians of football and by sports historians generally. As a ’super club’ comprising the best amateur talent available they were an important formative influence on football in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s. As a touring club - they first travelled to South Africa in 1897 and made regular forays into Europe and also to Canada, the United States and Brazil - they were the self-proclaimed standard bearers for gentlemanly values in sport.
Indeed for many years they were most famous football club in the world, drawing huge crowds and helping to ensure that the version of football emanating from the English public schools and universities in the mid-nineteenth century became a global game. Though their playing strength and influence waned after the First World War, they remained a significant force through to 1939, upholding ’true blue’ amateurism at a time when football was increasingly associated with professionalism and seen as a branch of commercial entertainment.
Whilst much has been written about the Corinthians, mainly by club insiders, this is the first complete scholarly history to cover their activities both in England and in other parts of the world. It critically reassesses the club’s role in the development of football and fills a gap in existing literature on the relationship between the progress of the game in England and globally. Most crucially, the book re-examines the sporting ideology of gentlemanly amateurism within the context of late-nineteenth century and early-twentieth century society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bolsmann, Chris

Porter, Dilwyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: ‘A scratch team with gentlemanly instincts’: The Corinthians and English soccer in the late nineteenth century
Chapter Two: Decline and fall: The Corinthians in the twentieth century
Chapter Three: ‘Missionaries of Empire’: The Corinthians on tour in South Africa
Chapter Four: Communing with continental amateurism: Corinthians in Europe, c.1904-1939
Chapter Five: ‘Joy the Corinthians are coming!’ The Corinthian Football Club on tour in Canada and the United States
Chapter Six: Noblesse Oblige and the Corinthian sojourns in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Bolsmann is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University Northridge, USA and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dilwyn Porter is an Honorary Professor of Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University and Visiting Professor of Modern History at Newman University, Birmingham.