How Soccer Explains the World

A series of essays that bills itself as “an unlikely theory of globalization.” No such theory is actually presented. Instead, you get a series of essays tying soccer into other conceps (“the Jewish question,” Brazil, hooliganism). The essays are interesting, but there is no real takeaway lesson.

If you're looking for an entertaining read with some facts for sustenance, this book will do. But don't be fooled—you will not finish this book with any new theory of globalization. I bought to book expecting something more in depth and was disappointed.

Subtitle should have been “Essays on Global Soccer Phenomena” or something like that.