Beyond the Final Whistle

Beyond the Final Whistle

Football for a Better World

Kostakis, Vasilis

Pluto Press

04/2025

144

Mole

9780745350738

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How this book was written

Funding acknowledgement



Introduction



Part I: What is football?

1. Football is art

2. The football gods are dead

3. We always dance together

4. We always sing together

5. It came home

6. So what is football anyway?



Part II: What world do we want?

7. We all kicked a ball once

8. The one who always kicked the can

9. The Hallowed Lost Penalty

10. Messi stretches to infinity

11. The tragedy of our times

12. When you're down 4-0 in the 89th minute, can you turn the tide?

13. The poor are poor because they make poor choices

14. The tunnel to the other side of earth

15. The Cruyff turn

16. So can the world change through football?



Part III: How to change the world through football

17. The turn of the century

18. Drivers should drive and footballers should kick the ball

19. Democracy in football, democracy in society

20. Perhaps the greatest match of all time

21. Another world is here

22. The football of change

23. So how do we change the world through football?



Sources and further reading

Index



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Marxism; Messi; Zapatistas; England Lionesses; Camus; Chicago Bulls; Nietzsche; Football; Ecosocialism; Grassroots Social Movements; the Commons; Cosmolocalism; Post-Capitalism; Philosophy; left theory of sports; capitalism and sport; football and social justice; Corinthians Democracy; football and climate crisis; alternative economic models; paulo freire and football; football and cooperation; post-capitalist sports; post-capitalist football; football philosophy; present for football fan; books about football and politics; books for football fans; the philosophy of football; football and philosophy; history of soccer; history of football; soccer and politics; football and politics; soccer books; football books; The Last Dance; Corinthians; football and degrowth; cultural studies; sport psychology; sport and social change; sport philosophy; Sport sociology; Football and Marxism; Football and Capitalism; Football and Revolution; Can football change the world; Radical Football; What We Think About When We Think