In a Communist country, the football club you supported was a community to which you yourself had chosen to belong. The regime did not send you to support a club, and you could choose your team. It might be your only chance to choose a community and in that community you could express yourself as you wished.
The majority of this book is not focused on this specific statement. Rather, the author spends time examining why soccer culture is the way it is in different countries. He spends time within some chapters addressing dictators and revolutions, notably the section on African soccer, and spends time on it in the Argentina chapter, but for many others, he seemingly ignores politics or at least politics as we think of them in the traditional sense.
Argentina met Peru in a second round group match in the World Cup of 1978, and had to beat them by at least 4-0 to reach the final. This appeared to be out of the question, Peru being a decent side. But Argentina had to win the World Cup, and the Peruvian generals were short of cash and happy to help a fellow junta. Argentina shipped 35,000 tons of free grain to Peru, and probably arms too, while the Argentine central bank unfroze $50 million in credits for Peru. Argentina won 6-0, in what may be the only World Cup matches so far to have been won with a bribe.
在中国，足球俱乐部的支持是一个社区，你自己选择了属于。政府不给你支持的俱乐部，你可以选择你的团队。这可能是你唯一的机会，选择一个社区和社区你可以表达你自己。
这本书不是集中在这一特定的声明。相反，作者花时间研究为什么足球文化的方式是在不同的国家。他花时间在一些章节解决独裁者和革命，特别是对非洲足球，并花时间在阿根廷，但是对许多其他人来说，他似乎忽略了政治或至少为我们认为他们在传统的意义。
阿根廷与秘鲁在下一轮在世界杯小组赛1978，并有至少4 – 0击败他们最后到达。这似乎是出了问题，秘鲁是一个体面的方。而阿根廷赢得世界杯，和秘鲁的将领都缺钱和乐于助人的军政府。阿根廷运35000吨自由粮秘鲁，和可能的武器，而阿根廷中央银行解冻50000000美元的信贷秘鲁。阿根廷以6比0获胜，这可能是唯一的世界杯比赛，到目前为止已赢得了贿赂。
