Extant scholarship on football stadium names is almost exclusively restricted to discussing
naming rights deals as expressions of toponymic commodification. Departing from this rather …

Doing research with African migrant football players, past and present, and with African
youth who aspire to play the professional game abroad and who pursue this goal with a …

Malaysia is a country that has taken a severe approach to improving the quality and
performance of the football team. To match the strength of the world-class football team …

For two decades, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Israeli soccer players participated in
Asian leagues and associations. During this period, they achieved much and celebrated …

Migration of African footballers to South-East Asia results from the global mobility
characterizing the international soccer market. The growing popularity of soccer in Malaysia …

This chapter assesses the place of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup within
contemporary mega-mediasport, focusing on the role of the media and event promoters in …

Malaysia has taken a rigorous approach to improving the quality and performance of its
football teams. To match the strength of world-class football teams, the nation has taken a …

China has often made claims that it invented football, which many people in other countries
dispute (Cho, 2016). Whatever the legitimacy of these claims, though, China has never …

State-business relations play a crucial role in China's economic development and policy
implementation. Characterised by an asymmetric dependency nexus, local government …

This paper analyses the sociocultural background, and the nature of the cultural legacy of
the Portuguese, in the diffusion and promotion of football in Macau. The paper seeks to …