This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds hinder the development of the game. The author shows convincingly how Africa's advance within world football is tied to its national political economy and how the balance of power within FIFA still clearly favours its European members.
Author(s): Paul Darby
Series: Sport in the Global Society
Edition: digital printing
Publisher: Frank Cass
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: London
Cover
Half-title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Football Diffusion and Colonial Doctrine in Africa
2. Football, Indigenous Resistance and African Independence
3. FIFA, Eurocentrism and the Distribution of Power in World Football
4. Africa, Third World Solidarity and the FIFA Presidency
5. Havelange, African Resistance and the Struggle for Global Equity
6. UEFA, FIFA and the Scramble for Africa
7. Africa and the Campaign for the Summit of World Football
8. Theorising Africa's Place in FIFA's Global Order
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
