Write 1,000 words on this prompt: (How and why did soccer become the world’s most popular sport? Do its production and consumption reflect the nature of the societies that have played it? Does its production and consumption mask the nature of the societies that played it?) You can use any outside courses to help with the paper as well as some materials I’ll be providing as it also requires having sources from the class.
Make sure to not be repetitive, provide specific dates and places, and support any claims you make.
You can use any of these readings to help answer these questions:
– Richard Holt – Sport and the British
– David Goldblatt – The Ball is Round
– Susan Cahn – Coming on Strong
– Elliot Gorn and Warren Goldstein- A Brief History of American Sports
