The Making of a Global FIFA : : Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974 / / Luiz Burlamaqui.

In 1974, the Brazilian sports official João Havelange was elected FIFA’s president in a two-round election, defeating the incumbent Stanley Rous. The story told by Havelange himself describes a private odyssey in which the protagonist crisscrosses two thirds of the world canvassing for votes and cha...

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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]
Editora Intermeios, São Paulo 2020, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 243 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Foreword by Barbara J. Keys
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 English stiffness: a political history of FIFA during the long sixties, 1959–1971
  • Chapter 2 The administrator: politics and ideology in the making of a social legacy (1916–1970)
  • Chapter 3 “A Blonde Pelé”: business organization, political propaganda, and the 1970 World Cup
  • Chapter 4 At the heart of the Brazilian miracle: casing and political propaganda in Havelange’s election as the president of FIFA (1971–1974)
  • Chapter 5 The world that we had lost. FIFA political crisis and the making of a new international football order, 1971–1974
  • Conclusion: a new international football order?
  • Annex: honors received by Havelange between August 1970 and July 1974
  • Bibliography
  • Index