"Gabriel Kuhn's Soccer vs. the State is a wondrous reminder of all the times and ways and places where football has slipped its chains and offers what it always promised: new solidarities and identities, a site of resistance, a celebration of spontaneity and play." --David Goldblatt, author of The Ball Is Round and The Game of Our Lives "There is no sport that reflects the place where sports and politics collide quite like soccer. Athlete-activist Gabriel Kuhn has captured that by going to a place where other sports writers fear to tread. Here is the book that will tell you how soccer explains the world while offering means to improve it." --Dave Zirin, author of Game Over and Brazil's Dance with the Devil "Gabriel Kuhn has written the programme notes for the most important match of all, The People's Game vs. Modern Football." --Mark Perryman, cofounder of Philosophy Football "Kuhn is impressive in his global and historical scope, and in acknowledging gender and sexuality questions as well as those of class and race, as he looks at issues ranging from the exploitation of African players to the way the World Cup has been abused politically.

" --Tom Davies, When Saturday Comes "Both the politics and the prose of Soccer vs. the State are clear. The view is internationalist, and the breadth of subjects covered makes the book useful for both football fans and activists." --Daniel Widener, Radical History Review.