Fútbolitica

Can a soccer game start a war? Is Barça the only team that can boast of being more than a club? What peculiarities unite such disparate and geographically distant teams as Celtic from Glasgow and Al-Wehdat from Jordan? Can football serve the cause of democracy in the face of a dictatorship and vice versa? The world as a ball, history as a football match. Reading Futbolítica we will discover that there is no relevant contemporary historical episode that is not reflected in the trajectory of a football club, to the point that, through their stories, it is possible to relive most of the events that have marked the last century: anti-colonial rebellions and class struggle, Nazism and communism, the Cold War and that of the Balkans, national conflicts and the fight against dictatorships... Futbolítica is an exciting read, full of anecdotes and data that , with the dizzying pace of the big parties, invites us to meet these extraordinary political actors that are football clubs and to reflect on their role, often crucial, as representatives of ideologies, ethnic groups, oppressed communities or rebellious minorities.