Goals Beyond the Posts: What Football Has Done to Nations

About this book

Nagwa Mostafa approaches football through the human and political stories of figures including Pele, Mahmoud El Khatib, Cristiano Ronaldo, Maradona, Didier Drogba, and Mohamed Salah. The book considers how a global game can confront racism, carry messages of peace, embody national hope, and turn individual struggle into shared memory. These are not simply player biographies, but accounts of sport's power beyond the goalposts.