Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction: soccer under authoritarian regimes
Jean-Michel De Waele & Alina Trif
Pages: 625-628 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775048
Research Articles
Playing football in Vietnam before 1940: an act of resistance?
Brice Fossard
Pages: 629-638 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775040
Football and fascism in Italy
Fabien Archambault
Pages: 639-647 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775041
Struggling against the caste system, the patronage and unhealthy payments: attempts at regulation of football players’ remunerations from the 1950s to the 1970s in the Soviet Union
Sylvain Dufraisse
Pages: 648-656 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775042
Football and authoritarianism in twentieth century Romania: between propaganda and subversion
Robert Adam
Pages: 657-666 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775043
TV fiction and state fiction: Abseits/offside (1981), a socialist narrative of violence in East German football
Joris Lehnert
Pages: 667-679 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775044
Football in Turkey during the Erdoğan regime
Dağhan Irak
Pages: 680-691 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775045
Football and the authoritarian regime in Iran
Christian Bromberger
Pages: 692-698 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775046
The Burundian football under the sway of the political authority: towards a systemization of its development and instrumentalization as a reconciliation strategy
Celestin Mvutsebanka
Pages: 699-709 | DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2020.1775047