Tag: Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Football and right-wing populisms: S. Berlusconi and G. Becali by Traian Sandu & Andrea DU Ruzza (open access).

In 1974, the Brazilian sports official João Havelange was elected FIFA’s seventh president since 1903. Havelange’s road to power has been mapped in a doctoral dissertation, The Making of a Global FIFA: Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974 by Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui (de Gruyter). Historian Björn Horgby is our appreciative reviewer, apart from some marginal remarks, and he foresees Burlamaqui’s study becoming a standard work in various branches of sports research.

Soccer a.k.a (association) football, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has become a major social phenomenon since the late nineteenth century. Through the social prism of soccer, scholars across the world have tended to understand various aspects of life. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world.