St. Pauli - Another Football Is Possible

**Longlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021 - Football Book of the Year**FC St. Pauli is a football club unlike any other. Encompassing music, sport and politics, its fans welcome refugees, fight fascists and take a stand against all forms of discrimination. This book goes behind the skull and crossbones emblem to tell the story of a football club rewriting the rulebook.Since the club's beginnings in Hamburg's red-light district, the chants, banners and atmosphere of the stadium have been dictated by the politics of the streets. Promotions are celebrated and relegations commiserated alongside social struggles, workers' protests and resistance to Nazism. In recent years, people have flocked from all over the world to join the Black Bloc in the stands of the Millerntor Stadium and while in the 1980s the club had a small DIY punk following, now there are almost 30,000 in attendance at games with supporters across the world.In a sporting landscape governed by corporate capitalism, driven by revenue and divorced from community, FC St. Pauli demonstrate that another football is possible.

About the author

Carles Viñas has published several books including Skinheads a Catalunya (2004), El Mundo Ultra (2005) and Tolerancia Zero (2006). He researches sports extremism.

Natxo Parra is a labour lawyer and cooperative partner at Col.lectiu Ronda, Barcelona. He is co-author of 'The Concept of Radicalization' in Jihadist Islam:(Tirant lo Blanch, 2015) and Introduction to Political Science (Universitas, 2014).

Product details

• Authors: Natxo Parra, Carles Vinas, Carles Parra Vinas, Carles Viñas
• Assisted by: Deniz Naki (Foreword), Luke Stobart (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780745340906
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4090-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Hamburg, Germany, SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Political activism, Sports teams & clubs, Sociology: sport & leisure, Fascism & Nazism, Sports teams and clubs, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer), Social groups: clubs & societies, Anarchism, Political activism / Political engagement