Soccer against the Enemy is a book which chronicles the impact that society has upon soccer, and soccer upon society in various countries throughout the world. The author, Simon Kuper, is a Dutch born writer who has been around the world of soccer for most of his life and has written for numerous publications in Europe. The problem for Kuper is that he wrote this book towards the beginning of his career, and there are a few sections of this book where this becomes obvious. The fact that Kuper was a 23 year old traveling the world on an extremely limited budget gives him some excuse for this, and makes it a distraction that isn’t too noticeable.
“Gulag camp bosses, arbiters of the life and death of thousands upon thousands of human beings… were so benevolent to anything concerning soccer. Their unbridled power over human lives was nothing compared to the power of soccer over them.”
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently. Kuper meets a remarkable variety of fans along the way, from the East Berliner persecuted by the Stasi for supporting his local team, to the Argentine general with his own views on tactics. He also illuminates the frightening intersection between soccer and politics, particularly in the wake of the attacks of 9-11, where soccer is obsessed over by the likes of Osama bin Laden. The result is one of the world’s most acclaimed books on the game, and an astonishing study of soccer and its place in the world.
打击敌人的足球是一本书，记载了社会的影响，在足球，足球在世界各地各个国家对社会。 ，西蒙•库珀，是一家荷兰出生的作家，他一直在世界各地的足球在欧洲的许多出版物，并撰写了他一生中最。库珀的问题开始对他的职业生涯，他写这本书，这本书，这将成为明显的有几个部分。事实上，库珀是一位23岁周游世界，在一个非常有限的预算给了他一个借口，这使得它一分心，是不是太明显。
“古拉格营老板，成千上万人类的生命和死亡的成千上万的仲裁者是如此仁慈任何有关足球。他们的肆无忌惮的人的生命权的权力在他们的足球却是无法相比的。”
足球是远远超过只是在世界上最流行的游戏。这是一个世界各地的数百万的国际通用语言的生活和死亡的问题。西蒙·库珀发现有时离奇的效果的足球政治和文化上有22个国家和地区。与此同时，他试图发现什么使如此不同，不同的国家玩一个简单的游戏。库珀的球迷沿途遇到了一个显着的品种，从东柏林迫害的斯塔西支持他的地方队，阿根廷将军与他自己的看法战术。他还阐明了可怕的足球与政治之间的交叉，特别是在之后的攻击9-11，乌萨马·本·拉丹喜欢的足球的痴迷。其结果是一个世界上最负盛名的书上的游戏，足球和其在世界和一个令人震惊的研究报告。
