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The World Is A Ball

In The World is a Ball, critic and author John Doyle travels the world in pursuit of his first love - football. In dispatches from Italy to Ireland and from Buenos Aires to Bratislava, and between encounters with crazed taxi drivers and drunken
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In The World is a Ball, critic & author John Doyle travels the world in pursuit of his first love
- football. In dispatches from Italy to Ireland & from Buenos Aires to Bratislava, & between encounters with crazed taxi drivers & drunken fans dressed as leprechauns or in lederhosen, Doyle celebrates the evolution of soccer as a global phenomenon.

He begins his journey with the first game he saw in repressed 1960s Ireland
- a match which left a lasting impression on him
- & then skips through the decades to concentrate on football in the twenty-first century. Here he focuses on the World Cups of 2002 & 2006, the European Championships of 2004 & 2008, & the key games & teams involved in qualifying for the historic 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

With eyewitness accounts that are both hilarious & nostalgic, The World is a Ball brilliantly weaves together travelogue, match-reporting & compelling social history. It's an insightful & thought-provoking vision of the beautiful game which for some is more a religion than a sport: where colonized nations can triumph over their colonizers, the poor are rich in the pleasure of play, & for ninety minutes, anything seems possible.

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Football - A sport involving kicking a ball and trying to score a goal
South Africa - A country at the southern tip of Africa.
World Cup - A type of sporting competition.
Key - A physical or virtual device or code used for opening something
History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.
World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti
Love - Someone who shows deep affection for someone else.
Italy - a country in Europe.
Nostalgic - A memory for familiar things and wanting to get it back.
Vision - To be able to imagine, also can mean what you can see.

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