Organizing the World Cup in an historical perspective: new challenges and topics

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Acknowledgments

The authors want to thank Souvik Naha and Kausik Bandyopadhyay for their constant support during the process of compiling this volume. They are also grateful to the two experts that helped all the authors to improve the quality of their paper, and also to Shani D’Cruze, Claire Ferguson, Jennifer Gay and Eric Ausruhe for the proofreading of the papers. This special issue has received a financial support from the CREDA UMR7227 and from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lausanne.

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Notes

1. Roche, Mega-events and modernity. For a recent discussion about this concept, see Müller, ‘What makes an event a mega-event?’.

2. https://fr.fifa.com/worldcup/news/plus-de-la-moitie-de-la-planete-a-regarde-la-coupe-du-monde-2018.

3. Some authors have attempted to propose a chronology – mainly based on a Western European point of view – on football’s globalization. See notably: Giulianotti and Roberston, Globalization and Football; Bancel, Quin and Vonnard, ‘Introduction: Studying the Europeanization of Football.’

4. Dietschy, Gastaut and Mourlane, Histoire politique des coupes du monde.

5. Brizzi and Sbetti, Storia della Coppa del Mondo di Calcio.

6. Helal and Cabo, Copas do Mundo.

7. Gonçalves Magalhães, Com a taça nas mãos. See also: Bolsmann, Marchi Júnior, Schausteck de Almeida and de Souza, ‘Rationales, rhetoric and realities’.

8. Schiller, WM 1974; Simón Sanjurjo, España ’82. See also: Guasco, Spagna ’82; Dauncey and Hare, France and the 1998 World Cup.

9. For instance: Hughson, England and the 1966 World Cup; Porro, Martelli and Russo, Mondiale delle meraviglie. See also the two recent studies by Gillett and Tennent: ‘Opportunities for all the Team’ and ‘“Filip” or flop?’.

10. Wahl, Aspects de l’histoire de la coupe du monde.

11. Wahl, Histoire de la Coupe du monde.

12. Rinke and Schiller, The FIFA World Cup 1930–2010.

13. Wahl, Histoire de la Coupe du monde.

14. Gold and Gold, The Making of Olympic Cities; Girginov, Olympic Studies; Delaplace and Schut, Hosting the Olympic Games.

15. University of Paris 3, Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique latine (IHEAL), CREDA UMR 7227, University of Lausanne, Deutsche Sporthochschule-Cologne, De Monfort University-Leicester and the University of Limoges.

16. For instance, see: Bandyopadhyay, Naha and Mitra, ‘FIFA World Cup and beyond’; Frawley and Adair, Managing the World cup.