Football Italia
Subtitle: Italian football in an age of globalization
By: Mark Doidge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London : New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781472519191
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions; Soccer; Sports and globalization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports
Description: "Football Italia examines the development of Italian football in relation to the wider global transformations impacting football, and addresses the reasons for Serie A's initial success and current malaise"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction - Globalisation and Italian Football2. Globalisation and Community3. Modernity and Deregulation in Italy4. Deregulation and Crisis in Italian football5. The Tempest: A Twenty-First Century of Scandal6. The Matchday Experience: Italian Stadiums7. The Matchday Experience: Italian Forces of Order8. The Matchday Performance: Football Fandom in Italy9. The Livornesi Performance: The Local and the Political10. The Social Capital of Italian Supporters' Clubs11. Conclusion: 'Year Zero?.