num_pages: 299
description: Africa United is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen countries from Cairo to the Cape Steve Bloomfield the former Africa Correspondent for The Independent  meets players and fans politicians and rebel leaders discovering the role that soccer has played in shaping the continent. This wide-ranging and incisive book investigates Africas love of soccer its increasing global influence the build-up to the 2010 World Cup itself and the social and political backdrop to the greatest show on earth.
language: English
title: Africa United: Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa
publisher: Harper Perennial