Kicking Off Around The World

A tour-de-force that touches on how football is always mixed up with politics in every corner of the globe Mehreen Khan,The Timesand co-host of the Humans & Heroes football podcastBrings us closer to the overlooked aspects of football, the social and political ones, which truly imbue clubs with soul Carles Vias, author ofSt. Pauli: Another Football is PossibleThink you know everything about football?Which football match triggered a war? How did the beautiful game push back against the tyranny of dictatorship, and usher another into power?Kicking Off Around the Worldincludes 55 incredible stories in which football clubs have been a mirror toand a maker ofworld history and politics.Full of anecdotes, surprising facts and illustrations, Ramon Usall mixes the grassroots with the greatest of all time; the unknown and the unforgettable. He looks at the womens game, football during the war in Ukraine, and stories of clubs from Britain to the US, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, from football under the Nazis to the communists and everyone in between.Ramon Usall is a sports and crime writer, living in Catalonia. He is the author ofFutbol per la llibertat, which won the Josep Vallverd Essay Prize.