Mordillo Football

A comprehensive look into early professional football, this biography of Everton and Liverpool’s founding father John Houlding breaks new ground by addressing the important role of...

Based on original ethnographic research in a multicultural neighbourhood in The Hague, this book gives detailed insights into the challenges, negotiations and resistances girls wit...

Until 2018, women in Saudi-Arabia did not have access to football stadiums, and before 2020 there was no official women’s teams. On the face of it there were no women in football u...

Today’s game of football is more physically demanding than ever. Every play is full speed, sideline to sideline, goal line to goal line, for four punishing quarters. To withstand t...

This chapter traces the history of two competing views about the role of high school football in American communities: the “Football Town” and the “Friday Night Lights syndrome.” “...

Football, or soccer, is the most popular team sport in the world with over 200 countries affiliated to the international governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Associ...

Developed with the expertise of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Strength Training for Football shows you how to design resistance training programs for s...