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More Than A Shirt

22 Football Shirts That Explain The World

Author: Joey D'Urso  

More Than A Shirt
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Twenty-Two Football Shirts that explain the world, geopolitics and the biggest stories of our time

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Twenty-Two Football Shirts that explain the world, geopolitics and the biggest stories of our time

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Football is the world's most popular sport, and the shirts worn by teams and their supporters are its greatest means of cultural expression. Every year clubs launch new kits with increasingly extravagant marketing campaigns and convoluted explanations of how their designs reflect their history and local community. But football shirts are much more than just a symbol of which club we support. A seemingly innocuous combination of colours, sponsor logos and materials can all reflect the social values, financial struggles and political ideologies of the day, as geopolitical issues increasingly seep into every aspect of the game.

Investigative journalist Joey D'Urso has travelled across the globe, combining on-the-ground reporting with unparalleled analysis to collate a list of the twenty-two football shirts that best explain the modern world.  More Than A Shirt will take fans on a journey from Birmingham to Belgrade and onto Medellin and Milan, outlining how we can see the war in Ukraine in Schalke's shirt or China's foreign policy in West Bromwich Albion's; how the shirts of state-owned clubs are used for sportswashing; and why the French national kit embodies worldwide migration patterns.

A compelling and eye-opening exploration, More Than A Shirt is essential reading for any football fan and will change the way you think about the beautiful game's most universal symbol.

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About the Author

Joey D'Urso is the Senior Data Journalist for The Times. He was previously the Investigations Writer for The Athletic, owned by the New York Times. He has broken numerous big stories on Premier League clubs facilitating illegal gambling in Asia, cryptocurrency scams, the Football Index scandal and many more. He was nominated for Football Journalist of the Year in 2022 by the Football Supporters Association and has been twice nominated in the sports journalism category at the British Journalism Awards. He has previously worked for Reuters, BBC News, BuzzFeed News, Wired and the Sunday Times.

This is his first book. Twitter: @josephmdurso

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Publisher
Orion Publishing Co | Seven Dials
Published
19th June 2025
Pages
320
ISBN
9781399622813

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