More Than A Shirt: Longlisted for the 2025 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
Autor Joey D'Ursoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iun 2025
A GUARDIAN SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
A WATERSTONES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
'This is a marvellous football book, although it is much more than that.' The Times
'More Than A Shirt shows why geopolitics keeps invading the pitch.' The Economist
'D'Urso's simple conceit offers a sparklingly fresh snapshot' The Guardian
'Extensively researched and wonderfully written, Joey's book deserves to be read by all' Martin O'Neill
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Twenty-Two Football Shirts that explain the world, geopolitics and the biggest stories of our time
Football is the world's most popular sport, and the shirts worn by teams and their supporters are its greatest means of cultural expression. Every year clubs launch new kits with increasingly extravagant marketing campaigns and convoluted explanations of how their designs reflect their history and local community. But football shirts are much more than just a symbol of which club we support. A seemingly innocuous combination of colours, sponsor logos and materials can all reflect the social values, financial struggles and political ideologies of the day, as geopolitical issues increasingly seep into every aspect of the game.
Investigative journalist Joey D'Urso has travelled across the globe, combining on-the-ground reporting with unparalleled analysis to collate a list of the twenty-two football shirts that best explain the modern world. More Than A Shirtwill take fans on a journey from Birmingham to Belgrade and onto Medellin and Mumbai, outlining how we can see the war in Ukraine in the shirt of Schalke in Germany or China's foreign policy in West Bromwich Albion's; how the shirts of state-owned clubs are used for sportswashing; and why the French national kit embodies worldwide migration patterns.
A compelling and eye-opening exploration, More Than A Shirtis essential reading for any football fan and will change the way you think about the beautiful game's most universal symbol.
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'Thoroughly resourceful and revealing' Jon Spurling, FourFourTwo
'Intelligent, thoughtful and brilliant' Chris Mason
'Original and innovative... a "Parts Unknown" for the game' Miguel Delaney
'Smart, warm and original' Matt Chorley, BBC Radio 5 Live
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399622806
ISBN-10: 1399622803
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Seven Dials
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399622803
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Seven Dials
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
This is a marvellous football book, although it is much more than that.
There's more to every aspect of football than meets the eye, and that's brilliantly captured here.
Joey D'Urso is a fresh voice and a tireless reporter, who takes the reader from China to Colombia via Nottingham. He's the first person to use football shirts to explain the world, and does it convincingly. Kudos and respect.
Extensively researched and wonderfully written, Joey's book deserves to be read by all.
Without question, Joey is one of the most intelligent and thoughtful journalists I've ever worked with. This book encapsulates Joey's brilliance as a journalist: big thinking and relatable - local, global, political, sporting. What does a rectangle-ish of colourful, sweaty polyester tell you about the contemporary world? One heck of a lot, it turns out - about belonging and identity yes, but geopolitics and economics too. This book is a brilliant idea, brilliantly researched and brilliantly written.
Smart, warm and original... it will make politics nerds think differently about football, and football fans think differently about the world.
One of the most original and innovative football books in some time, a "Parts Unknown" for the game, as well as football business and football culture. Joey's unique writing is perfect for that Bourdain role. You might be familiar with some of the shirts, but some of the stories from the brilliant on-the-ground reporting within will astound you. A book that will both enthral and seriously educate.
Oligarchs, petro-states, narcotrafficantes, are just a few of the characters running football these days. Starting with football kits, Joey D'Urso brilliantly maps the political and economic interest that have come to colonise their iconography and the game as a whole. After you have read this book, "playing for the shirt" will never sound the same again.
A day at the football is usually an escape from politics - but Joey D'Urso's revealing reporting reminds us that it's never quite so simple. This colourful book is a treat for anyone interested in both... or neither.
After reading this thoroughly resourceful and revealing book, you will never look at football shirts in the same way again.
A meticulously researched book that reveals plenty about football and even more about the modern world.
One of the best books on football I have ever read.
Whether you binge it or snack on it, if you like football, football shirts, history or politics, you'll find lots to love in this eye-opening and insightful book, and you'll feel smarter for having read it. Fascinatingly detailed and painstakingly researched, with a real passion for the beautiful game - especially watching matches of all levels at stadia across the globe - that shines through.
An engaging, original, insightful and introspective examination of football's relationship with politics and power. Joey helps us understand how football and the world operate.
Every page brings the reader at least a few 'well, I never knew that' bits . . . scrupulously researched
More Than a Shirt reframes the narrative about football's place in the modern world by scrutinizing part of its literal fabric
More Than A Shirt shows why geopolitics keeps invading the pitch
Engaging and original, D'Urso's blend of sport and geopolitics reveals the messages and subtexts of twenty-two modern football shirts from West Bromwich Albion to Schalke and beyond.
D'Urso has chosen 22 kits that tell a compelling story about the tangled, complicated relationship they and football itself has with an increasingly fraught geopolitical landscape... The result is an outstanding book... This is an ambitious book and its scope is enormous, but the talented D'Urso takes each chapter in his stride.
Once a cultural heirloom and piece of shared heritage, the football shirt is now a commercial opportunity, a political platform, a place for crypto sponsors and state actors to run riot. Football and politics is a genre that has been done to death in recent years, but there D'Urso's simple conceit - examining the soiled modern game through the prism of the shirt - offers a sparklingly fresh snapshot as well as a powerful reminder of the incredible global scope of the sport
There's more to every aspect of football than meets the eye, and that's brilliantly captured here.
Joey D'Urso is a fresh voice and a tireless reporter, who takes the reader from China to Colombia via Nottingham. He's the first person to use football shirts to explain the world, and does it convincingly. Kudos and respect.
Extensively researched and wonderfully written, Joey's book deserves to be read by all.
Without question, Joey is one of the most intelligent and thoughtful journalists I've ever worked with. This book encapsulates Joey's brilliance as a journalist: big thinking and relatable - local, global, political, sporting. What does a rectangle-ish of colourful, sweaty polyester tell you about the contemporary world? One heck of a lot, it turns out - about belonging and identity yes, but geopolitics and economics too. This book is a brilliant idea, brilliantly researched and brilliantly written.
Smart, warm and original... it will make politics nerds think differently about football, and football fans think differently about the world.
One of the most original and innovative football books in some time, a "Parts Unknown" for the game, as well as football business and football culture. Joey's unique writing is perfect for that Bourdain role. You might be familiar with some of the shirts, but some of the stories from the brilliant on-the-ground reporting within will astound you. A book that will both enthral and seriously educate.
Oligarchs, petro-states, narcotrafficantes, are just a few of the characters running football these days. Starting with football kits, Joey D'Urso brilliantly maps the political and economic interest that have come to colonise their iconography and the game as a whole. After you have read this book, "playing for the shirt" will never sound the same again.
A day at the football is usually an escape from politics - but Joey D'Urso's revealing reporting reminds us that it's never quite so simple. This colourful book is a treat for anyone interested in both... or neither.
After reading this thoroughly resourceful and revealing book, you will never look at football shirts in the same way again.
A meticulously researched book that reveals plenty about football and even more about the modern world.
One of the best books on football I have ever read.
Whether you binge it or snack on it, if you like football, football shirts, history or politics, you'll find lots to love in this eye-opening and insightful book, and you'll feel smarter for having read it. Fascinatingly detailed and painstakingly researched, with a real passion for the beautiful game - especially watching matches of all levels at stadia across the globe - that shines through.
An engaging, original, insightful and introspective examination of football's relationship with politics and power. Joey helps us understand how football and the world operate.
Every page brings the reader at least a few 'well, I never knew that' bits . . . scrupulously researched
More Than a Shirt reframes the narrative about football's place in the modern world by scrutinizing part of its literal fabric
More Than A Shirt shows why geopolitics keeps invading the pitch
Engaging and original, D'Urso's blend of sport and geopolitics reveals the messages and subtexts of twenty-two modern football shirts from West Bromwich Albion to Schalke and beyond.
D'Urso has chosen 22 kits that tell a compelling story about the tangled, complicated relationship they and football itself has with an increasingly fraught geopolitical landscape... The result is an outstanding book... This is an ambitious book and its scope is enormous, but the talented D'Urso takes each chapter in his stride.
Once a cultural heirloom and piece of shared heritage, the football shirt is now a commercial opportunity, a political platform, a place for crypto sponsors and state actors to run riot. Football and politics is a genre that has been done to death in recent years, but there D'Urso's simple conceit - examining the soiled modern game through the prism of the shirt - offers a sparklingly fresh snapshot as well as a powerful reminder of the incredible global scope of the sport