Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Future of Football: Social, Cultural and Economic Perspectives

The Future of Football: Social, Cultural and Economic Perspectives

Corvo, Paolo
Porrovecchio, Alessandro

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

FootballSports GeneralSoccer

ISBN10: 1041200196
ISBN13: 9781041200192
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 14 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores football's evolution from a community-based sport to a global entertainment industry, examining the profound social, economic, cultural, and technological forces reshaping the world's most popular game.

Through interdisciplinary research and critical inquiry, the contributors explore football's changing landscape across multiple dimensions, from the shifting roles of players, coaches, and referees to the transformation of fans from passionate supporters to global consumers. This book provides fresh perspectives on pressing contemporary issues, including the impact of technologies such as VAR on officiating, the tension between local identity and global commercialisation, and controversial initiatives such as the Super League. Its comprehensive examination of how football's commercialisation and mediatisation have fundamentally altered the sport's relationship with communities' challenges traditional notions of belonging while creating new forms of engagement. Each chapter combines theoretical frameworks with empirical evidence to illuminate the complex interplay between football's emotional roots and its increasingly business-driven model, offering insights into whether these seemingly opposing forces can coexist in the sport's future.

Also from

Corvo, Paolo

View All

Also in

Football

View All