You can’t kick politics out of football
Despite commercialization and elite capture, the world’s most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism.
2 Article(s) by:
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt is the author of three acclaimed books about soccer, including the international bestseller The Ball Is Round.
Afro football fever
Football historian and broadcaster David Goldblatt’s new, encyclopedic book of football opens with a chapter on Africa. Here we republish an excerpt.