A review by stevenmc19
Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power by Simon Kuper

5.0

Sometimes, I found it easy to forget this book was being formed and written close to three decades ago. Dramatic irony took hold during certain segments, but these instances were quelled in the postscript. Overall, the book accounts for many of the ways soccer intertwines with politics, religion, and the gravity in which the sport grabs a person emotionally; all of which, these reasons can be exploited by those who know how. Simon details examples on how some of these individuals have used soccer to further their own agendas in chilling ways.