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Автор: Holstein James A., Jones Richard S., Koonce George
Название: Is There Life After Football?: Surviving the NFL
ISBN: 147986286X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479862863
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find success
Is There Life After Football? draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they describe their lives playing the sport and after their football days are over. The “bubble”-like conditions of privilege that NFL players experience while playing, often leave players unprepared for the real world once they retire and must manage their own lives. The book also reveals the difficulties affecting former NFL players in retirement: social isolation, financial concerns, inadequate career planning, psychological challenges, and physical injuries. From players who make reckless and unsustainable financial investments during their very few high-earning years, to players who struggle to form personal and professional relationships outside of football, the stories in the book put a very human face on the realities of professional football. George Koonce Jr., a former NFL player himself, weaves in his own story throughout, explaining the challenges he encountered and decisions that helped him succeed after leaving the sport. Ultimately, Is There Life After Football? concludes that, despite the challenges players face, it is possible for players to find success after leaving the NFL if they have the right support, education, and awareness of what might await them.

Автор: Kittleson Roger
Название: The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil
ISBN: 0520279085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520279087
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian.

Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and economic power. The ongoing debate over how Team Brazil should play and positively represent a nation of demanding supporters bears on many crucial facets of a country riven by racial and class tensions.

The Country of Football is filled with engaging stories of star players and other key figures, as well as extraordinary research on local, national, and international soccer communities. Soccer fans, scholars, and readers who are interested in the history of sport will emerge with a greater understanding of the complex relationship between Brazilian soccer and the nation's history.

Автор: Reavis Tracey Savell
Название: The Life and Career of David Beckham: Football Legend, Cultural Icon
ISBN: 1442229926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442229921
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: David Beckham is an English soccer player whose popularity extends beyond the field and into international celebrity. He has played for some of the best clubs in the world, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, and AC Milan, and is known worldwide for his free kick experti...

Автор: Cashmore Ellis
Название: Studying Football
ISBN: 1138830739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138830738
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It's hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. Studying Football is the first book designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives.

Written by a team of leading international football experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key topics in football studies, including:

• media and celebrity
• identity, fandom and consumption
• gender
• violence
• racism
• corruption

Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material, a 'Research in Action' section and features to aid student understanding and bring theory to life. Studying Football introduces all the key themes and facets of the social-scientific study of football, and is therefore an essential text for students on football studies courses and useful reading for any undergraduates studying the sociology of sport more generally.

Автор: Joel Nathan Rosen, Maureen M. Smith
Название: More than Cricket and Football: International Sport and the Challenge of Celebrity
ISBN: 1496809882 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496809889
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Given the presumed dominance of American sport, many fans throughout the hemisphere find it difficult to envision the role of sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport consists of so much more than the games Americans play and so much more than the stereotype of cricket for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls.The success of athletes from other countries in basketball and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now exported to and from North America, provides some better examples of sport's international power. It also creates a very new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather limited reach beyond that star's own country or continent. Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this collection of some of world sport's most heralded celebrities (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment.

Автор: Pyta
Название: European Football and Collective Memory
ISBN: 1137450142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137450142
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.

Автор: Onwumechili
Название: Identity and Nation in African Football
ISBN: 1137355808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137355805
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan radicalization.

Автор: Dunn
Название: Female Football Fans
ISBN: 1137398191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137398192
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Most sociological work on football fandom has focused on the experience of men, and it usually talks about alcohol, fighting and general hooliganism. This book shows that there are some unique facets of female experience and fascinating negotiations of identity within the male-dominated world of men`s professional football.

Автор: Chari
Название: African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives
ISBN: 1137392223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137392220
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents.

Автор: Dunning
Название: The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)
ISBN: 1138989894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138989894
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when professional football first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war periods and revealing that England’s World Cup triumph formed a watershed. The changing social composition of football crowds and the changing class structure of British society is discussed and the genesis of modern football hooliganism is explained by tracing it to the cultural conditions and circumstances which reproduce in young working-class males an interest in a publicly expressed aggressive masculine style.

Автор: Pearson Geoff
Название: Ethnography of English Football Fans
ISBN: 071908721X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719087219
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years` participant observation -- .

Автор: Iber Jorge
Название: More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities
ISBN: 0896729079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780896729070
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Although the Latino/a population of the United States has exploded since the 1960s, an analysis of its place in the history of American sport has, until recently, been sorely underrepresented. The thoughtful and coherent essays in More Than Just Peloteros demonstrate that participation in sport and recreation develops identity and involvement in the lives of Spanish-speaking people throughout what is now the United States. The articles feature accounts of eras and events as varied as the Latino experience itself, including horse racing in colonial San Antonio, boxing in New York City, baseball in the barrios of 1930s Chicago, basketball in a 1950s Arizona mining town, and, of course, high school football in South Texas. As the nation’s demographics continue to change, more and more Latinos/as will, undoubtedly, leave their marks on the fields of athletic competition at levels ranging from the local to the professional, the business offices of franchises and colleges, and as general consumers of American sporting events and goods.  This volume recognizes and encourages the role that sport and recreation play in the day-to-day existence of Spanish speakers in the United States.