TY  - GEN
T1  - Soccer in Mind  : A Thinking Fan's Guide to the Global Game.
T2  - Critical Issues in Sport and Society Ser.
A1  - Guest, Andrew M.
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1290486102
AB  - From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game's winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan's guide to the world's most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women's game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.
OP  - 229
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - GV943
SN  - 1978817355
SN  - 9781978817357
SN  - 9781978817326
KW  - World Cup (Soccer)
KW  - Soccer : Social aspects.
KW  - Soccer fans : Social aspects.
KW  - Soccer : Psychological aspects.
KW  - Sports and globalization.
KW  - Sports et mondialisation.
KW  - Soccer : Aspect social.
KW  - Soccer : Aspect psychologique.
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION / General.
KW  - Soccer : Psychological aspects
KW  - Soccer : Social aspects
KW  - Sports and globalization
KW  - sports, soccer.
ER  -