Spirit High and Passion Pure: A Journey Through European Football

About this book

Is modern European football just big business. or is the game a vehicle for passion, spirit, and national identity? In an attempt to find out, Charlie Connelly embarks upon a European journey in search of the soul of the European game. From Spain's Primera Liga to the Faroe Islands' Second Division, this book examines the game at all levels in some of Europe's most diverse nations and puts the game in its political and social context. In Bosnia, Charlie Connelly finds football succeeding where politics has failed in uniting ethnic rivals. In Spain, he visits the top flight club that represents a fiercely independent people, and a journey to Northern Ireland reveals a struggling side forced to play every match across an international border.