HOW BRITAIN BROUGHT FOOTBALL TO THE WORLD

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, it was Britain that first spread the beautiful game across the world. Cornish miners took football skills along with their pasties to Mexico; Iraqi football legend Ammo Baba learnt the game at an RAF base. The Buenos Aires Cricket Club gave the world Argentine football, and Romanian dentist Iuliu Weiner got not only an English education, but a passion for football too. There is nothing quite like the global phenomenon that is football today - so many humans from so many countries and cultures enthusiastically participating in and watching a single developed sport with shared rules and there may never be anything like it again. The book is about how a sport developed here in Britain then spread across the globe. It contains all the UN member states but also contains those entities who are members of FIFA or a linked regional football association. The main chapters run in alphabetical order so if you want to read about football in Guadeloupe, look under France, and if you want to read something about football in Guan, look under the USA. Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Holland have for instance all helped develop our understanding of what makes good winning football. And women's football clearly has a huge future. With eight maps, photos and colour plates.