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Goal! includes the annals of the stunning game from its roots in English general public schools in the first 19th century to its current role as an essential element of an globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how basketball altered from a sport at top notch boarding colleges in England to become a pastime favored by the working classes, allowing factories including the Thames Iron Works and the Woolwich Arsenal to give labor and birth to the groups that would end up being the Premier Category mainstays known as Western Ham United and Arsenal. In addition they explore the way the age of amateur soccer ended and, with the advancement of professionalism, how basketball became a sport dominated by big golf clubs with big money and with an international audience. You can find strong rivalries in soccer, such as that in Glasgow, Scotland, between (Catholic) Celtic and (Protestant) Rangers, and the authors examine meticulously the social triggers that make for such passionate fans. The reserve also discusses the utilization of soccer for political purposes, such just as Hitler's Germany and Franco's Spain. And - given the long-standing connection of soccer as a man's sport and the climb of women's soccer, especially in america - the authors go through the gendered record of the world's most popular sport. This reserve, which will appeal to all connoisseurs of soccer, provides a zoom lens through which to view the sociable and cultural record of modern European countries. The reserve is published because of the Catholic School of America Press.
