Beach Soccer Histories

Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social, and cultural phenomenon, defining its traditions and presenting leading research on the development and significance of football played on sand. It adopts and adapts qualitative methods related to oral history and football studies, including extensive archival research, semi-structured interviews, and textual and thematic analyses. It explores the games origins, organizations, and the beach cultures that underpin its sporting and historical development.

Format: Hardback
Length: 150 pages
Publication date: 22 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Beach soccer has come a long way since its origins in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s, evolving into an internationally governed professional sport. While it shares some similarities with football, the sand-based variant distinguishes itself with its unique playing surface, which has a significant impact on the game. Despite its popularity, beach soccer has received limited academic scrutiny, which this research aims to address.

The study adopts and adapts qualitative methods related to oral history and football studies, including extensive archival research, semi-structured interviews, and textual and thematic analyses. By examining the origins, organizations, and beach cultures that underpin beach soccer's sporting and historical development, the research provides a comprehensive exploration of the game and its century-long existence.

The book delves into the historical development of beach soccer, highlighting critical moments and movements in its progress. It explores successes and contentions, as well as the contemporary state of play, with the aim of deepening and advancing our understanding of the game. Through interviews with key figures, including players, coaches, and officials, the book sheds light on the experiences, perspectives, and contributions of those involved in the sport.

Furthermore, Beach Soccer Histories examines the social and cultural significance of beach soccer, exploring how it has become a platform for promoting diversity, unity, and community engagement. It discusses the role of beach soccer in fostering social inclusion, promoting physical fitness, and promoting healthy lifestyles among individuals from different backgrounds.

The book also provides insights into the economic impact of beach soccer, including its potential for tourism development, sponsorship opportunities, and the growth of the beach soccer industry. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced by beach soccer organizations, including FIFA, in promoting and developing the sport on a global scale.

In conclusion, Beach Soccer Histories is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history, development, and contemporary state of play of beach soccer. It offers a comprehensive exploration of the sport, providing insights into its historical roots.

Following a period of expansive, rapid growth, beach soccer is an internationally governed professional sport, which has come a long way from its origins in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s. The sand-based variant is distinguished from football by a range of factors, including the dramatic impact of the playing surface. Yet, the game has undergone very little academic scrutiny. This research adopts and adapts qualitative methods related to oral history and football studies, including extensive archival research, semi-structured interviews, and textual and thematic analyses. As it looks beneath the games contemporary reach, it considers origins, organizations – including FIFAs influence – and the beach cultures that underpin its sporting and historical development. This the most comprehensive exploration of beach soccer and a century of its existence.

Beach Soccer Histories examines the games historical development, critical moments and movements in its progress, successes and contentions, and its contemporary state of play with a view to deepening and advancing our understanding of the game.

Beach soccer has come a long way since its origins in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s, evolving into an internationally governed professional sport. While it shares some similarities with football, the sand-based variant distinguishes itself with its unique playing surface, which has a significant impact on the game. Despite its popularity, beach soccer has received limited academic scrutiny, which this research aims to address.

The study adopts and adapts qualitative methods related to oral history and football studies, including extensive archival research, semi-structured interviews, and textual and thematic analyses. By examining the origins.

The book delves into the historical development of beach soccer, highlighting critical moments and movements in its progress. It explores successes and contentions, as well as the contemporary state of play, with the aim of deepening and advancing our understanding of the game. Through interviews with key figures, including players, coaches, and officials, the book sheds light on the experiences, perspectives, and contributions of those involved in the sport.

Furthermore, Beach Soccer Histories examines the social and cultural significance of beach soccer, exploring how it has become a platform for promoting diversity, unity, and community engagement. It discusses the role.

The book also provides insights into the economic impact of beach soccer, including its potential for tourism development, sponsorship opportunities, and the growth of the beach soccer industry. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced by beach soccer organizations, including FIFA, in promoting and developing the sport on a global scale.

In conclusion, Beach Soccer Histories is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history, development, and contemporary state of play of beach soccer. It offers a comprehensive exploration of the sport, providing insights into its historical.

Weight: 460g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032264974