The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup is a worldwide competition of FIFA members’ senior men’s national soccer teams. It is the most widely followed sporting event in the world; the viewership even exceeds that of the Olympic Games. The 2014 World Cup is being hosted by Brazil during June 12 to July 13, 2014.
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If you want to learn more about soccer, UBC Library subscribes to two online journals which publish articles on various aspects of the game:
If you want to learn more about the diverse economic and cultural impacts of soccer, UBC Library has a lot of relevant online books in its collection. To view any of the books listed below, click onto a title and then click on the orange “Online Access” button. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your CWL and password:
- Star-spangled soccer : the selling, marketing and management of soccer in the USA by Gary Hopkins.
- Soccer empire : the World Cup and the future of France by Laurent Dubois.
- It hurts (stock prices) when your team is about to lose a soccer match by Michael Ehrmann and David-Jan Jansen. (Working Paper/ Bank of Canada)
- Post-fandom and the millennial blues the transformation of soccer culture by Steve Redhead.
- National pastime : how Americans play baseball and the rest of the world plays soccer by Stefan Szymanski, Andrew Zimbalist.
- Beyond bend it like Beckham : the global phenomenon of women’s soccer by Timothy F. Grainey
- Football goes east: business, culture, and the people’s game in China, Japan, and South Korea edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and John Horne.
- African soccerscapes : how a continent changed the world’s game by Peter Alegi