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Moving with the Ball:

The Migration of Professional Footballers
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Bloomsbury Academic, Jun 1, 2001 - Sports & Recreation - 273 pages
As a universal game, association football has been particularly suited to the transfer of labour forces. It does not require the use of a specific national language, a recognized diploma or acquired qualification, and the rules are standardized across the globe. Thus the international football market could be considered an ideal example of a transnational and multicultural employment sector. Role models throughout the history of professional football have not necessarily come from the town, nation, racial group or religious denomination of the majority of supporters, as is seen in the cases of Maradona in Naples, the German Bert Trautmann after the Second World War, and more recently the Frenchman Eric Cantona in Manchester, the Cameroonese Milla in France, and the Argentinian Di Stefano in Madrid. Football provides a particularly revealing lens through which to examine changes in national styles and stereotypes as they have been (and still are) reflected in the search for identities in sporting heroes.

In this book, the authors consider the movement of football labour from the late nineteenth-century to the present day within the framework of international migration as a whole. Emphasis is given to the initial role of the British in the early twentieth century and the impact of the earliest South American and Yugoslav football 'wanderers'. The position of African footballers in the postwar period and the failure of America's national league in the 1970s are also discussed, along with the international market for coaches and managers, the development of national playing styles and the immediate consequences and future implications of the Bosman ruling.

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Pierre Lanfranchi De Montfort University Matthew Taylor Univerity of Portsmouth

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TitleMoving with the Ball: The Migration of Professional Footballers
AuthorsPierre Lanfranchi, Matthew Taylor
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2001
ISBN1859733077, 9781859733073
Length273 pages
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Social Science / Sociology / General
Sports & Recreation / History
Sports & Recreation / Soccer
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