Moments, Metaphors, Memories

Introduction: Defining moments in the history of soccer

Kausik Bandyopadhyay and Souvik Naha

1. Football events, memories and globalization

Richard Giulianotti

2. Let the Aryanists know! Brazilian race and nation in the 1938 France World Cup

Tiago J. Maranhao

3. 'Filip' or flop? Managing public relations and the Latin American reaction to the 1966 FIFA World Cup

Alex G. Gillett and Kevin D. Tennent

4. Politics, resistance and patronage: the African boycott of the 1966 World Cup and its ramifications

Paul Darby

5. 1982 FIFA World Cup: from Spain's struggle for democratic legitimacy to Italy's rediscovery of football nationalism

Juan Antonio Simon and Carlos Garcia-Marti

6. El desmadre: counter-hegemonic fervour in Carlos Monsivais's 1986 World Cup chronicles

Patrick Thomas Ridge

7. Africa at the Football World Cup, 1934-2018: defining moments and memories on the field

Wycliffe W. Njororai Simiyu

8. Lessons learned and tables turned: '(in)security' and media representations in the 2018 World Cup

Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

9. National identity, social legacy and Qatar 2022: the cultural ramifications of FIFA's first Arab World Cup

Thomas Ross Griffin

10. The making of modern soccer: a product of multiple interdependencies

Graham Curry

11. From Mitropa Cup to UEFA Cup: the role of UEFA in the establishment of a European scale in football, 1927-1972

Philippe Vonnard

12. Celtic FC's 1967 Lisbon Lions: why the European Cup victory of the first club from Britain was a defining moment for the Irish diaspora in Scotland

John Kelly and Joseph M Bradley

13. The 'invention' of FIFA history: Joao Havelange's election to FIFA presidency as a historic event

Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui

14. Still as divided as ever? Northern Ireland, football and identity 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement

David Hassan and Kyle Ferguson

15. Moments and memories: football and state narratives in Algeria

Youcef Bouandel and Mahfoud Amara

16. WEURO 2017 as catalyst? The narratives of two female pioneers in the Dutch women's football media complex

Rens Peeters, Agnes Elling and Jacco Van Sterkenburg

17. The gendering of defining moments: heroic narratives and pivotal points in footballing memories

Kath Woodward