The Life of Professional Football Players (1930-1995)

Author: (French) Alfred Wahl / (French) Pierre Lanfranchi / Yu Hong
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Want to learn about the long history and glorious journey of French football? Curious about how professional football players live? This book chronicles the entire process of French football from its inception to professionalization, depicting the daily lives of professional football players and recreating the development journey of the profession from its emergence to acceptance. Football is not just a sport; it also involves society, politics, economics, and even culture in many aspects. This book delves into these fascinating questions through economic and sociological analysis. Adopting a chronological structure to analyze the lives of players, it reveals how the economic, social, cultural, and even political environments around them gradually exert influence on football. The profession of a player also has its own history, crises, and unique historical evolution determined by internal factors. This book will adopt traditional methods to narrate social history and daily life, relying on insightful research and sources. Players are the center of the study, situated within their surroundings, with their own professional obligations, pursuits, joys, and pressures—all of which are part of their daily lives, leisure activities, and more. The two authors of this book each possess extensive materials accumulated over the years. Additionally, Pierre Lanfranchi has obtained the results of a comprehensive survey conducted among hundreds of former players from the 1930s and 1940s.