In an exploration of these themes this collection provides insight into academic studies of football in Portugal, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer in Society

Introduction Globalised Football: A Lusocentric Perspective Part I 1. Lusophone Football Professionals in Anglophone Spaces 2. `Angels of Us All?¿: Football Management, Globalisation and the Politics of Celebrity 3. Corporate Capitalism, transnational migration and the selling of soccer: The New England Revolution and Lusophone Diaspora populations Part II 4. Football History & Migration in/from Lusophone Spaces 5. Football and Colonialism, Domination and Appropriation: On the Mozambican case 6. African Football Labour Migration to Portugal: Colonial and Neo-Colonial Resource 7. Apollonians and Dionysiacs: Gilberto Freyre's thought on the "Brazilian people" and the role of football 8. The Bloodletting of Football Talent: Brazilian Football and Globalisation Part III 9. Football, the Nation, the City and the Dream: Different historical and social experiences 10. Football in Russia: Nation, City and the Dream 11. Playing the Post-Fordist Game in/to the Far East: The Footballisation of China, Japan and South Korea 12. The Paradox of the Portuguese Game: On the omnipresence of football and the absence of spectators 13. Reflections on the new fiesta nacional(ista); soccer and society in modern Spain Part IV 14. Football Discourses and Social Conflict: Money, Myths and Movements 15. "Not For Sale"?: The destruction and reformation of football communities in the Glazer Take-over of Manchester United 16. On Stupidity in Football. An Essay