Africa, Football and FIFA

Politics, Colonialism and Resistance
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-7146-8029-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Sport in the Global Society

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Darby, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten American Football Fußball

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Football Diffusion and Colonial Doctrine in Africa; Chapter 2 Football, Indigenous Resistance and African Independence; Chapter 3 FIFA, Eurocentrism and the Distribution of Power in World Football; Chapter 4 Africa, Third World Solidarity and the FIFA Presidency; Chapter 5 Havelange, African Resistance and the Struggle for Global Equity; Chapter 6 UEFA, FIFA and the Scramble for Africa; Chapter 7 Africa and the Campaign for the Summit of World Football; Chapter 8 Theorising Africa's Place in FIFA's Global Order;

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Darby