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The first comprehensive history of the World Cup, the most watched sporting event on the planet, a global obsession that has become the greatest cultural event there has ever been offering a quadrennial insight into the broader currents of world history.
For readers of David Goldblatt and Franklin Foer, and for Coach Beard (of Ted Lasso) who devotedly read Jonathan Wilson's classic book on soccer tactics Inverting the Pyramid, here is the definitive cultural and social history of the world's greatest spectator event bar none: the World Cup. Nor since Eduardo Galeano's epigrammatic Soccer in Sun and Shadow has a book displayed the full century of soccer history and all of its global significance to such captivating effect.
Jonathan Wilson is the author of eleven books. He is the editor of the Blizzard and a freelance writer for the Guardian, World Soccer and Sports Illustrated, and the author of a weekly newsletter on soccer specifically targeted at US readers of the Guardian.
For readers of David Goldblatt and Franklin Foer, and for Coach Beard (of Ted Lasso) who devotedly read Jonathan Wilson's classic book on soccer tactics Inverting the Pyramid, here is the definitive cultural and social history of the world's greatest spectator event bar none: the World Cup. Nor since Eduardo Galeano's epigrammatic Soccer in Sun and Shadow has a book displayed the full century of soccer history and all of its global significance to such captivating effect.
Jonathan Wilson is the author of eleven books. He is the editor of the Blizzard and a freelance writer for the Guardian, World Soccer and Sports Illustrated, and the author of a weekly newsletter on soccer specifically targeted at US readers of the Guardian.