The book is a valuable addition to the politics and social history of sport, and to the sociology of the global system and the changing world order.

Football’s role in Africa, Asia and the USA is also illuminated, and FIFA’s global mission and rhetoric evaluated. The book includes analyses of football’s contributions to the growth of nationalism and anti-imperialism the use of football by ruthless and sometimes corrupt officials and political despots and its expansion under the influence of increasingly prominent commercial paymasters. The second part considers how new and powerful players have emerged in FIFA in the wake of the collapse of empires. The first part of the book covers the origins and organizational characteristics of FIFA, and of the European and South American federations. Interviewing more than seventy influential leaders world-wide and drawing on exclusive documentary sources, the authors demonstrate FIFA’s importance in twentieth-century sport, and in an increasingly global consumer culture. In FIFA and the Contest for World Football Sugden and Tomlinson provide the first full-length study of FIFA (the Federation Internationale de Football Association) and its role in framing and controlling world football.

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