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Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game (Critical Issues in Sport and Society) free ebook download

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Author(s):	Andrew M. Guest

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1978817312
Pages:	228	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the games winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self?
 
This book provides a thinking fans guide to the worlds most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the womens game.
 
As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, 
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