Kingdom of Football – Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer

Kingdom of Football – Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World SoccerAn exploration of how and why Saudi Arabia burst onto the landscape of world football in 2023, and examines what the speed and scale of Saudi engagement as investor, owner, sponsor, host and competitor might mean for the Kingdom and for football. Writing as both a football fan and a Gulf specialist, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen offers historical and comparative contexts for Saudi Arabia's startling emergence as a world football hub in the 2020s,

A guide to the changing landscape of modern football which contains stories of icons such as Erling Haaland

Size: 170mm x 239mm – 390 pages

directors and politicians as he studied the modern state of the region's professional

or in the dugout for nearly 20 Varsity Matches at the helm of the Oxford University 'Blues

right up to the change of their nickname

in addition to lifting the Scottish League Cup for the 13th time

Cup and UEFA Cup winner with Bobby Robson's Ipswich Town

NOTE: This book contains a bookplate autographed by Liam O'Brien

The story of how Atalanta BC rose from the lower reaches of Serie A to become Champions League quarter-finalists in just four years following the appointment of Gian Piero Gasperini as manager as he developed a squad playing one of Europe's most scintillating brands of football

and casts fresh light on important figures in the clubs history

transporting the reader from Asia to South America and from Europe to Africa

Length: 156 minutes