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9780714680293

Africa, Football and Fifa

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  • ISBN13:

    9780714680293

  • ISBN10:

    071468029X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paul Darby is a lecturer in the sociology of sport at Liverpool Hope University College. He has written broadly on the relationship between Europe and Africa as mediated by football. He is currently undertaking research on identity, Gaelic sport and the Irish immigrant and is also Senior Academic Editor of the international journal Soccer and Society. He received his doctorate from the University of Ulster in 1997

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Series Editor's Forewordp. xiii
Acknowledgementsp. xvii
Introductionp. 1
Football Diffusion and Colonial Doctrine in Africap. 8
Football, Indigenous Resistance and African Independencep. 23
FIFA, Eurocentrism and the Distribution of Power in World Footballp. 43
Africa, Third World Solidarity and the FIFA Presidencyp. 57
Havelange, African Resistance and the Struggle for Global Equityp. 85
UEFA, FIFA and the Scramble for Africap. 108
Africa and the Campaign for the Summit of World Footballp. 136
Theorising Africa's Place in FIFA's Global Orderp. 161
Conclusionp. 180
Epiloguep. 188
Notesp. 192
Bibliographyp. 218
Indexp. 231
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