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Notes
1. Throughout this introduction and the volume, soccer and football have been used almost interchangeably, unless otherwise specified as in the cases of the United States or Australia.
2. Numerous studies have discussed the role of soccer/football in the everyday life of nations. For a most recent example, see Goldblatt (Citation2014).
3. For a case study on this, see Crolley and Hand (Citation2006).
4. For a general study of the significance of national identity around the two most significant global sporting spectacles, viz. Olympics and FIFA World Cup, see Tomlinson (Citation2012).
5. A number of works have dealt with the impact of globalization on sports in general and football in particular. For example, see Sandvoss (Citation2003).
6. Many of these emerging issues in world football have found their way through the articles published in the last few years in a host of scholarly journals on sport, and most notably in Soccer & Society (London: Routledge).