# The Ball is Round

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- Book: [The Ball is Round](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-goldblatt/the-ball-is-round) ([The Ball is Round.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-goldblatt/the-ball-is-round.md))
- Authors: [David Goldblatt](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-goldblatt)
- Publisher: riverhead_books
- ISBN: 978-15-9448-296-0
- Pages: 1008
- Published: 2008-01-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely...