by Simon Kuper
I also drew heavily on the following magazines: France Football, Follow, Not the View, Shedzine, Voetbal International, Vrij Nederland, When Saturday Comes and World Soccer.
INDEX
Abacha, Sani
Abiola, Moshood
Abramian, Levon
Acosta, Alberto
Action Coup de Peur
Adams, Tony
Advertising
Advocaat, Dick
Agu, Alloy
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Ajax Amsterdam
Al Qaeda
Albania
Alemann, Juan
Algeria
Al-Halidi, Husam
Amnesty International
Amokachi, Daniel
Amunike, Emmanuel
Anglophone Africans
Arcadia Shepherds
Ardiles, Osvaldo
Argentina
barras
Bilardismo
Brazil match
British roots of soccer
Cameroon’s win over
dirty war
Menotti
1993 league season
politicians’ support of football
2003 elections
World Cup 1978
World Cup 1986
World Cup 1994
Armenia
Arms dealing
Arnesen, Frank
Arsenal
AS Roma
Asmaral
Atteveld, Ray
Auf der Heyde, Peter
Australia
Austria Vienna
Avignolo, Maria Laura
Azerbaijan
Azzurri
Babangida, Ibrahim
Bad Blue Boys
Bafana Bafana
Baggio, Roberto
Bahrain
Bailey, Gary
Balboa, Marcelo
Banks, Gordon
Bannikov, Victor
Barça. See FC Barcelona (Barça)
Barras (Argentine soccer gangs)
Bayer, Osvaldo
Bayern Munich
Beagle Channel Islands
Beckenbauer, Franz
Beffon, Julia
Belanov, Igor
Belfast Celtic
Bell, Joseph-Antoine
Belodedici, Miodrag
Bergkamp, Dennis
Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich
Berlin Wall
Berliner Tageszeitung newspaper
Berling-Manuel, Lynn
Berlusconi, Silvio
Bernhard, Prince of Holland
Berthold, Thomas
Best, George
Bezverkhy, Victor
Bhamjee, Abdul
Bhamjee, Ismail
Bilardo, Carlos
Bild newspaper
Bin Laden, Osama
Biya, Paul
Black Wednesday
Blatter, Sepp
Blazevic, Miroslav
Blissett, Luther
Blok, Ger
Boban, Zvonomir
Bobo’s
Boca Juniors
Bodansky, Yossef
Bodyguards
Bogs, Jürgen
Bombs
Bonafini, Hebe
Boniek, Zbigniew
Bormann, Martin. See Ovchinikov, Valeri
Boskamp, Hans
Bosman, John
Boston Herald
Bosz, Peter
Botha, Adriaan
Botswana
Botswana Sports Magazine
Boyle, Raymond
Brady, Liam
Brazil
Argentina match
Malandro
national identity and soccer
Parreira’s decline in popularity
popularity of soccer
soccer style
World Cup history
Brehme, Andy
Breitner, Paul
Bremner, Billy
Brewster, David
Bribery
border guards
Croatia’s Blazevic
exporting restricted goods
professionalization of Dynamo Kiev
Qaddafi’s payment to Udinese
Russian matches
World Cup 1978
Bridgewater, Peter
Briegel, Hans-Peter
Britain
Argentina’s soccer history
Botswana’s playing style
code of honor
European teens’ view of
fan culture
Herrera on
invention of modern soccer
players’ style and characteristics
South Africans’ preference for
Bush, George W.
Butcher, Terry
Butler, Jeff
Bwalya, Albert
Bwalya, Kalusha
Byrne, Johnny “Budgie”
Byrne, Mark
Byrne, Nicola
Byshovets, Anatoly
Calloway, Lawrie
Calvo, Pilar
Cambra, Sixte
Cameroon
African players in Europe
Africa’s World Cup history
Anglophone-Francophone politics of soccer
Cup final
decline in soccer quality
defeating Argentina
European influence on soccer style
Lions training
Milla and
racism influencing World Cup appearances
team nicknames
tourism
women’s soccer
World Cup 1982
World Cup 1994
World Cup history
Cameroon Post
Cameroon Tribune
Caniggia, Claudio
Cape Town Hellenic
Capoeira
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
Casaus, Nicolau
Catalan Nationalist Party
Catalonia. See FC Barcelona
Catenaccio (defensive system)
Celtic
Celtic View magazine
Chalwe, F.S.
Chamot, José Antonio
Charity Shield (1983)
Charlton, Bobby
Charlton, Jack
Charnock, Clement
Charnock, Harry
Chelsea
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chile
China
Chovanec, Josef
Clavijo, Fernando
Cliftonville
Clingendael Institute
Clinton, Bill
Clough, Brian
Code of honor
Collor de Mello, Fernando
Colombe Sangmelima
Colombia
Colonialism
Communism
Computer games
Confederation of African Soccer (CAF)
Congo
Continental soccer players, style of
Corruption
Brazilian government
Moscow’s arranged matches
professionalization of Dynamo Kiev
South Africa’s NSL scandal
See also Bribery
Coup, military (Argentina)
Coutinho, Claudio
Craig, Jim
Cricket
Crime
Croatia
Croatia Zagreb. See Dynamo Zagreb
Crowley, Steve
Cruyff, Johan
Cruyff, Jordi
Crying, Gascoigne’s
CSKA Moscow
Cuba
Cursing
Davies, Pete
De Groot, Jaap
De Jong.
De Sa, Roger
De Telegraaf newspaper
Dearnaley, George
Deaths
anti-Qaddafi fans
Argentina’s dirty war
Argentinian soccer crime
Bobby Moore
Brazilian suicides
Cameroonian fans
Celtic goalkeeper Thomson
Helenio Herrera
Klopfleisch’s mother
Lenin Stadium disaster
Roma’s Taccola
Zambian national team
Deelder, Jules
Defensive style. See Catenaccio (defensive system)
Denmark
Department of Defense, U.S.
Di Stefano, Alfredo
Diamant Yaoundé
Diboti, David Doula
Dingwall, Mark
Dinu, Cornel
Dirty war, Argentina’s
Disappeared, Argentina’s
Doll, Thomas
Dooley, Thomas
Drug use
Dumitrescu, Ilie
Dutch West Indians
Dynamo Berlin
Dynamo Douala
Dynamo Dresden
Dynamo Kiev
Dynamo Minsk
Dynamo Moscow
Dynamo Tbilisi
Dynamo Zagreb
Dzerzhinsky, Felix
Ebwelle, Bertin
Egypt
El Mundo Deportivo newspaper
El Salvador
Elections
Cameroon
campaigners supporting soccer
South Africa
Enciso, General
English, William
Ente Autarquico Mundial
Escobar, Andreas
Español
Esquivel, Adolfo Pérez
Estonia
Ethiopia
Ethnic tension. See Racism and racial differences
Euro
Euro 96
European Championship (1988)
European Championship (1992)
European Cup
European Cupwinners’ Cup
Everton
Facchetti, Giacinto
Faith-healers
Falco, Mark
Falklands War
Fans
British fan culture
Dutch conquest of Germany in 1988
European fan culture
Germany and Holland’s postmatch violence
Holland-Germany Euro 92 match
power of soccer over
US fan style
Favela
FC Barcelona (Barça)
FC Berlin (formerly Dynamo Berlin)
Fearon, Michael
FECAFOOT
Ferencváros
Ferguson, Alex
Fernandez, Luis
Ferreira, Carlos
Fickert, Joachim
FIFA
Flaquer, Lluís
Flora Tallinn
Fluminense
Foé, Marc-Vivien
Fofana, Youssouf
Follow, Follow magazine
Fon Echekiye, Ignatius
Footbolny Kurier magazine
Forza Italia
France
African players
Cameroon and
Niger’s playing style
France Football magazine
Francis, Trevor
Franco, Francisco
Franco, Itamar
Francophone Africans
Fraud. See Corruption
Free speech
Frismanas, Matvejus
Fru Ndi, Ni John
Functional training
Gamper, Joan
Garcia, Luis
Garrincha
Gascoigne, Paul
Gaspart, Joan
Gazza. See Gascoigne, Paul
Gemmell, Tommy
Georgia
Germany
Berlin Wall
Euro 92
Holland’s rivalry with
invasion of Kiev
Germany, East
Giggs, Ryan
Gillhaus, Hans
Glanville, Brian
Glass, Colin
Gleeson, Mark
Goethe, Georges
Gold exports
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Graham-Yooll, Andrew
Grant, Peter
Greece
Greig, John
Gullit, Ruud
Haarlem
Hacker, Leon
Hadjidakis, George
Hagi, Gheorge
Haiti
Hamill, Paul
Hanot, Gabriel
Hantzidis, Minas
Happy-go-lucky soccer style
Harbour, Jean
Harkes, John
HASK Gradjanski
Hateley, Mark
Havasi, Mihály
Havelange, Joâo
Heads of state, soccer and
Heerma van Voss, A.J.
Heinrichs, April
Henderson, Chris
Herrera, Helenio
Hertha BSC
Hillier, David
Hitchens, Gerry
Hoddle, Glenn
Hodgson, Roy
Holland
Ajax Amsterdam
Dutch soccer style
Germany’s rivalry with
PSV Eindhoven
total soccer
Holland-Germany Soccer Poetry
Homewood, Brian
Honduras
Honecker, Erich
Hooliganism
Horn, Gyula
Houghton, Ray
Houseman, Marcelo
Houseman, René
Houston, Danny
“How Deeply It Runs” (van Muiswinkel)
Howe, Don
Humor
Hungarian diaspora
Hungary
Hussein, Saddam
Hussein, Uday
Ibrox
Ice hockey
Igna, Ion
Il Messagero newspaper
Immigrants
Indian League, South Africa
Indomitable Lions
Inkatha Freedom Party
Inter Milan
Intolerance
Invention of soccer
Iran
Iraq
Ireland, Northern (Ulster)
Ireland, Republic of
Irving, Duncan
Islamism
Italy
AS Roma
fan heaven
Inter Milan
Lazio Roma
literary supremacy
popularity of soccer
Qaddafi’s career
training model
World Cup 1982
World Cup 1994
Zambia’s win over
Ivic, Tomoslav
Johannsen, Kai
Johnson, Ben
Johnston, Maurice
Jongbloed, Jan
Julius, Vincent “Tanti”
Juventus
Kaizer Chiefs
Kaltz, Manni
Keller, Kasey
Kelly, Mike
Kempes, Mario
Keshi, Stephen
Kessel, Frits
Khoza, Irvin
Khumalo, Theophilius “Doctor”
Khumalo, Vusi
Klinsmann, Jürgen
Klopfleisch, Helmut
Klopfleisch, Ralf
Koeman, Ronald
Koloskov, Vyacheslav
Komphela
Koornhof, Piet
Krasnaya Prenya
Kubilius, Andrius
Kukushkin, Vsevolod
Kutznetsov, Oleg
Lacoste, Carlos
Lalas, Alexei
Lamptey, Nii
Landsbergis, Vytautas
Lattek, Udo
Latvia
Laudrup, Michael
Lazaroni, Sebastião
Lazio Roma
League championship
Leeds
Lehmann, Stefan
Lekota, Patrick “Terror”
Lenin Stadium, Moscow
Lerman, Sy
LeTellier, Scott Parks
Libregts, Thijs
Libya
Ligachev, Ygor
Lineker, Gary
Linke, Dean
Lisbon Lions
Lit
huania
Liubinskas, Algimantas
Liverpool
Lobanovski, Valeri
Lokomotiv Nizhni Novgorod
Long-ball game
Lopez, Guillermo
Los Angeles, California
Luxembourg
Maccabi Vilnius
Madida, Fani “Saddam”
Madragall, Pasqual
Mafia
Magic
Major, John
Makanaky, Cyril
Makovic, Zvonko
Malandro (trickster)
Maliukevicius, Nerijus
Malta
Mamelodi, Ashford
The Manageress (television program)
Manchester United
Mancuso, Alejandro
Mandela, Nelson
Mandelstam, Osip
Manzo, Rodolfo
Mao Tse Tung
Maradona, Diego
Marine School of Mechanics (EMSA)
Mariner, Paul
Masinga, Bennett “Loverboy”
Massing, Benjamin
Matthäus, Lothar
Matthews, Roy
Mazzola, Alessandro
Mbeki, Thabo
McCall, Stuart
McCormick, Thomas “D.J.”
Meciar, Vladimir
Media
Argentina-Brazil match
Argentina’s dirty war
Barcelona coverage
censorship of Iran-US match
danger of covering Slovak matches
Dutch press coverage of Robson
Germany and Holland’s postmatch violence
Holland-Germany rivalry
Moscow soccer coverage
South Africa-Nigeria
World Cup 1978
World Cup 1990
World Cup 1994
Zaire’s World Cup career
Médici, Emilio Garrastazu
Memory test
Menem, Carlos
Menotti, Cesar Luis
Menzo, Stanley
Meola, Tony
Merezov, Martyn
Metaphors of soccer
Metgod, John
Mexico
Michallik, Janusz
Michel, Henri
Michels, Rinus
Middlesbrough
Mielke, Erich
Migrants
Mikhailichenko, Alexei
Milan AC
Mill, Frank
Milla, Roger
Miller, David
Milutinovic, Bora
Minnows
Misery Wall, Argentina’s
Mizell, Louis
Mncwango, Innocent
Moller, Andy
Möller-Nielsen, Richard
Money laundering
Moore, Bobby
Morewa, Solomon “Stix”
Morocco
Moroka Swallows
Moshoeu, John “Shoes”
Motaung, Sizwe
Mother of All Battles Cup
Motivation
Mühren, Arnold
Muiswinkel, Erik van
Munro, Stuart
Murray, Bruce
Murray, David
Musonda, Charlie
Muti (witchcraft)
Mwepu, Ilunga
Mwila, Freddie
Nagodka
Nationalism and national character
African countries’ style
Barcelona
Brazil
Croatia
Falklands War
