Tag: Clemente A. Lisi
Yet another story about the World Cup
In The FIFA World Cup: A History of the Planet's Biggest Sporting Event (Rowman & Littlefield), veteran soccer reporter Clemente A. Lisi chronicles the tournament from 1930 to today, including a preview of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Lisi’s effort is reviewed here by historian Hans Bolling, who finds both the classic fallacies of non-historians writing history and a few embarrassing editorial mistakes. Still, he enjoyed reading it and recommends it for people with a general interest in football to read before future World Cup tournaments.
Celebratory rather than analytical and academic study of American elite soccer
Clemente A. Lisi’s latest book, A History of the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team (Rowman & Littlefield) did not quite live up to the expectations of our reviewer, Danish sport history professor Jørn Hansen. Too little context, societal or otherwise, and far too many match summaries turns this book into celebratory reading for supporters.
