Global Goals

<p>Global Goals: How Football United (and Divided) the Planet is a sweeping chronicle of the world's most popular game and its extraordinary power to shape history. From colonial fields to billion-dollar stadiums from African independence to Middle Eastern soft power this book traces how football became far more than a sport - it became a mirror of humanity itself.</p><p></p><p>Across a century of upheaval football has marched alongside empires revolutions and nations in transition. It has been used by dictators and dreamers alike - a tool of propaganda diplomacy and identity. It was played in prisons and palaces used to bridge Cold War divides and to ignite nationalist passions. Whether uniting continents under a common anthem or deepening divisions with the weight of pride and politics football has always reflected the times in which it was played.</p><p></p><p>Through vivid narrative and meticulous research Global Goals explores how matches became battles of ideology how the World Cup became a diplomatic stage and how a game of two halves came to define globalization itself. It reveals the beauty and brutality of a sport that at its heart speaks to something timeless - our shared desire to belong to compete and to dream together even as we stand divided.</p>