1st Edition
Football Presidents Towards a Typology of Political Cultures
Introduction
Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui and Jean Michel de Waele
1. Towards an economic and political taxonomy of Italian football presidents (1960–2000)
Luciano Segreto and Francesco Maccelli
2. Patrons in German lower league football: a qualitative case study
Christian Brandt and Kristian Naglo
3. On the spirit of capitalism in football: Dr David Rothschild and Alfred J. Meyers – presidents of FSV Frankfurt, 1925–33
Markwart Herzog
4. Il ‘Mago di Campagna’. Paolo Mazza as president of S.P.A.L. (1947–1976)
Tommaso Begotti
5. Women’s football in mid-twentieth century Brazil and France: three team managers from prohibition to profit
Carmen Rial and Caroline Soares de Almeida
6. One lady and two coasts – Veronica Chan’s presidential leadership in the context of women’s football, Hong Kong, and the ‘two chinas’
Kevin Tallec Marston
7. The ballot and the ball: Abdalá Bucaram, Barcelona SC, and the intersection of populism and machismo in Ecuadorian football club presidencies
Enrico Castro Montes
8. Roger Rocher, football business pioneer in France with the presidency of the Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne
Nicolas Chanavat, Benjamin Pelican and Pascal Charroin
9. Football and right-wing populisms: S. Berlusconi and G. Becali
Traian Sandu and Andrea DI Ruzza
10. The revolutionary management of Corinthians Democracy
José Paulo Florenzano
11. The rise and rise of Mauricio Macri: football, culture and presidential politics in Argentina 1991–2023
Jim O’Brien
12. A team in poverty is a poor team: politics, power, money and football according to Hank Rhon
Sergio Varela
13. Presidents’ president: Erdoğan-centred crony capitalism and football governance in Turkey
Dağhan Irak and Esra Erturan-Öğüt
14. Pinto da Costa, a man of (both) old and new football ways
João Sedas Nunes
Biography
Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui is Assistant Professor of History (on leave) at the Federal Institute of Brasilia. His dissertation on the political history of FIFA has been published in both Portuguese (A dança das cadeiras: a eleição de João Havelange à presidência da FIFA, 2020) and English (The Making of a Global FIFA, 2023). His research has garnered international recognition, including a FIFA Scholarship (2015) and a Fulbright Fellowship for Junior Faculty (2024, declined).
Jean-Michel de Waele is Full Professor of Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and he co-edited The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics (2018) and various special issues of Soccer and Society.
