European Football and Collective Memory [Hardcover]

Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective; Wolfram Pyta 2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football; Tobias Werron 3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on the UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups; J?rgen Mittag 4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory: Cups of Identity?; Michael Groll 5. The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space; Borja Garc?a-Garc?a, Ram?n Llopis-Goig and Agust?n Mart?n 6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: the Case of the 1960 European Cup Final; Geoff Hare 7. Erecting a European 'Lieu de m?moire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal'; Jean Christophe Meyer 8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?; David Ranc 9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory; Clemens Kech 10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 19451991; Seweryn Dmowski 11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football; Markwart HerzogA volume & ties together several different strands from the founding mythology of footballing and political Europe. Much of what is discussed in this volume has continued relevance for academics using football to try to make sense of the contemporary political context of Europe. (Matthew L. McDowell, idrottsforum.org, May 17, 2019)Seweryn Dmowski, University of Warsaw, Poland Borja Garc?a-Garc?a, Loughborough University, UK Michael Groll, German Sport University Cologne, Germany Geoff Hare, Independent Scholã"