Who Can Wear the Shirt: Migration, Race, and Identity in the National Teams of World Football
M. Muñoz
M. Muñoz
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Every four years, national football squads become one of the few places where millions of people argue, in real time, about who belongs to a country. Who Can Wear the Shirt follows that argument through concrete families and individual decisions: Zinedine Zidane's rise with France's celebrated 1998 World Cup squad, and his son Luca's later choice to represent Algeria instead; Germany's deliberate rebuilding of its academies around immigrant communities and Mesut Özil's contested exit from Die Mannschaft; England's Windrush-generation players and the racist abuse several faced after the Euro 2020 final; naturalized internationals in Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands; and African federations recruiting diaspora talent raised in Europe. Along the way, the book explains FIFA's eligibility rules in plain language, examines how European academies depend on multicultural neighborhoods, and profiles players who could legitimately have chosen more than one flag. Comparative rather than France-centered, careful rather than sensational, it treats migration and dual identity as ordinary features of modern football, not as questions any player owes an explanation for. The result is a rigorous, human account of what a jersey has come to mean.
Every four years, national football squads become one of the few places where millions of people argue, in real time, about who belongs to a country. Who Can Wear the Shirt follows that argument through concrete families and individual decisions: Zinedine Zidane's rise with France's celebrated 19...
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