1st Edition

The Economics of a Breakaway Football League The Rise and Fall of Colombia's El Dorado in the 1950s

100 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Throughout the history of football, new leagues have periodically emerged offering high salaries to lure foreign stars — the United States, Japan, and China being prominent examples. Less well known, however, is the case of Colombia. The Colombian professional football league was a brief but remarkable experiment that attracted top South American and European players in the early 1950s, commonly... Read more

List of figures

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Part 1: How Come Colombia

Part 2: Labour Markets, Piracy, And Football

Part 3: The Fall of El Dorado

Part 4: The Final Curtain

Part 5 : Data And Archival Research

Index