World Cup titles

Although neither France nor Italy is having a particularly memorable positive experience in the World Cup, some new books about French football have recently arrived in the library that may make for good summer reading:

Dubois, Laurent. Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.  (just arrived, should be in the HAS New Books section by late next week!)

(image from UC Press website: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520259287)

I have also ordered this catalog to an exhibit currently underway at the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration in Paris. It should arrive in the next few weeks.

(image from: http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/index.php?lg=fr&nav=1169)

Nothing new has come in recently on Italian football, but here are some books on the subject that are in the library:

Selvaggio, Mario. Glossaire Français-italien Du Football. Fasano (Br) [i.e. Brindisi, Italy]: Schena, 2007. 

Foot, John. Calcio : a History of Italian Football. London: Fourth Estate, 2006.

Catania, Enzo, and Mario Celi. Tutto Il Marcio Minuto Per Minuto : Il Romanzo Nero Del Calcio Italiano Dal 1896 a Oggi. 1. ed. Casale Monferrato (AL) [i.e. Alessandria, Italy]: Piemme, 2007.