From Our Staff | July 06, 2004
How Soccer Explains the World
While people across the country celebrated the Fourth of July, much of the rest of the world was watching the final game of the European Championships — the second greatest competition in the world of soccer next to the World Cup. The final brought the implausible match-up of two underdogs: the host country, Portugal, and Greece, which had never won a major game in international competition. The Greek team prevailed 1-0, sending their countrymen everywhere into Dionysian delight. The New York Times marked the occasion with a review of Franklin Foer’s book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. Foer makes the case for soccer as a mirror of global society in all its capitalist, tribalist and hooliganist ways.
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