Football in Asia

This is the first comprehensive book on history, culture and business of football in Asia. Authoritative and accessible, it will be required reading for students of sport studies, sociology, cultural studies and Asian studies.
This book was published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Younghan Cho is Associate Professor of Korean Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). He is co-editor of many special issues including Glocalization of Sports in Asia, Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives, Colonial Modernity and Beyond, and American Pop Culture.

1. Introduction: football in Asia 2. The slow contagion of Scottish example: association football in nineteenthcentury colonial Singapore 3. From shamateurism to pioneer of Asia's professional football: the introduction of professional football in Hong Kong 4. The politics of Indonesian and Turkish soccer: a comparative analysis 5. 'Hamlet without the Prince': understanding Singapore-Malaysian relations through football 6. The otherness of self: football, fandom and fragmented (sub) nationalism in Bengal 7. 'Hope for the win and hope for the defeat': constructions of South Korean identity and the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup 8. South Asia and South-East Asia: new paths of African footballer migration 9. Twenty years of development of the J-League: analysing the business parameters of professional football in Japan 10. Latin America, football and the Japanese diaspora 11. 'A' is for Australia: New Football's billionaires, consumers and the 'Asian Century'. How the A-League defines the new Australia 12. Australia, Asia and the new football opportunity