Joel Rookwood: This Is Our Game, Kartoniert / Broschiert
This Is Our Game
- Inside the World's Greatest Soccer Cities
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- Verlag:
- DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), 05/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9798217270170
- Artikelnummer:
- 12593274
- Umfang:
- 288 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 368 g
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 26.5.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"Reminds me of why I love football - at its heart, it's a reflection of the communities that are built around it. A special book. " - Jamie Carragher You know when you're in a Football City.
The murals, the billboards, the graffiti, the colours on the bars and pubs. No two football cities are the same. That cross on the club badge, commemorating a 1st century fisherman martyr (Ajax). The 'cemetery' of graves dedicated to the club's league rivals (Napoli). The guttural roar of fans chanting "Aupa Athletic, aupa Euskal Herria! " - a fierce declaration of Basque pride and identity, echoing through San Mamés like a battle cry (Bilbao).
In a world of increasing corporate and homogenous sport, football cities preserve culture and exhibit the particular and the unique with glorious passion. Fandom in a football city is for everyone: for boys and girls, for elderly men and the infirm; for the fashionable, the outcasts and the hopeless: it gives their days meaning and clarity - it can unite divided cities and divide the otherwise united.
This is Our Gameis a celebration of these unique fan cultures. Part travel, part social history, giving voice to distinctive local experiences, revealing the atmospheres, attitudes, fables, fashions, tensions and triumphs of twenty-two unique places and communities across all continents. It was the Russian composer (and FC Zenit fan) Dmitri Shostakovich who said: "Football is the ballet of the masses." This book takes us inside the dance.