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Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed.

With my steadily increasingly obsession with the sport of football it was inevitable that this new (at that time) passion would cross paths with my constant love affair with words. Since then… October 12, 2012 Also being the son of an anthropologist meant I looked at football anthropologically, almost as a weird culture that needed to be studied. I loved the game but also saw it from the outside. Putting all those things together, I thought it would be great to write a book about the role of football in different countries around the world. I was 21 when the book was sold to a publisher. It was crazily ambitious. I remember staying in youth hostels in Estonia or Buenos Aires and thinking ‘this is too much, I shouldn’t have done this’. Get Football Against The Enemy : Football Against The Enemy Portable Document Format from Simon Kuper EBOOK; Throughout the world football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world's hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed. Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them. At the same time he tried to find out what lies behind each nation's distinctive style of play from the carefree self-expression of the Brazilians to the anxious calculation of the Italians. During his journeys he met an extraordinary range of players, politicians and - of course - the fans themselves, all of whom revealed in their different ways the unique place football has in the life of the planet.

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This is a wonderful book written under great duress at times and full of the spirit of youthful exuberance and curiosity that runs way beyond the touchline ( Time Out)

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Simon Kuper travelled to 22 countries from South Africa to Italy, from Russia to the USA, to examine the way football has shaped them. At the same time he tried to find out what lies behind each nation's distinctive style of play, from the carefree self-expression of the Brazilians to the anxious calculation of the Italians. During his journeys he met an extraordinary range of players, politicians and - of course - the fans themselves, all of whom revealed in their different ways the unique place football has in the life of the planet. Quality soccer books have mushroomed ... but none matches this global examination for originality, breadth and sheer courage ( Mail on Sunday)SK: In 1990, I was listening to a radio programme about how sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland would hot up around Celtic-Rangers games. They had separate ferries getting over to Scotland to stop them beating each other up and whoever lost wasn’t happy after the game. It was a big issue for the British police in Northern Ireland, and the military. Football was an ignored topic by non-sport journalists, policy-makers, but after hearing that programme I thought ‘Wow, football can actually do things in a society.’