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FIFA And The Contest for World Football: Free Book

by Christopher Harris

The best things in life are free, and that even includes the football book “FIFA And The Contest For World Football,” courtesy of Google. Well, 20 percent of it that is.

In Google Book Search, the search engine features thousands of books that are viewable online. According to Google, “You can search within the book, zoom in and out on the page, and browse up to 20% of the book.”

“FIFA And The Contest For World Football,” published in 1998, demonstrates FIFA’s importance in twentieth-century sport, and in an increasingly global consumer culture.

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