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Informationen zum Autor Borja García is Lecturer in Sport Management and Policy at Loughborough University Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick Arne Niemann is Professor of International Politics at the University of Mainz Klappentext The book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states. Zusammenfassung The book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1: Context1. Introduction Arne Niemann, Borja Garcia and Wyn Grant2. The transformation of football: Europe, Richard Parrish3. Uefa and the European Union: the green shoots of a new European public space, Jonathan HillSection 2: Country studies 4. Germany: between modest adjustment and system transformation, Alexander Brand and Arne Niemann5. England: a liberal model under challenge? Wyn Grant6. France: a case of UEFA-isation? David Ranc and Albrecht Sonntag7. Italy: the last of the great leagues? Osvaldo Crocci, Nicola Porro and Pippo Russo8. Spain: parochialism or innovation? Borja Garcia, Alberton Palomar Olmeda and Carmen Pérez González9. The Netherlands: The problematic future of Dutch football, Otto Holman, Rik de Ruiter and Rens Vliegenthart 10. The Europeanisation of Austrian Football: historically determined and modern processes of Europeanisation, Alexander Brand, Arne Niemann and Georg Spitaler11. Sweden: the development of club football on the the periphery of Europe, Torbjörn Andersson, Jyri Backmann and Bo Carlsson12. Poland: new shape, same old problems, Magdelena Kedzior and Rzeszów Melchior Szcepanik 13. Switzerland: professionalisation and internationalisation, courtesy of the EU and UEFA, Dirk Lehmkuhl and Olivier SiegristSection 3: Conclusions 14. Conclusions Borja Garcia, Arne Niemann and Wyn Grant...