World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments

Simon Kuper

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It’s the biggest sporting competition on Earth. A four-yearly chance for our greatest footballers to realise their ultimate dream. A month-long media spectacle that’s watched by billions.

Simon Kuper is one of the very few people to have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he looks back at each tournament he’s experienced - from half-empty stands at Italia 90 to the French triumph as hosts in 1998, South Africa’s national dream in 2010 and the troubling legacy of Qatar 2022 - to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world.

The World Cup has changed hugely in recent decades; how did it become a bonanza of multinational sponsorship, dubious ethics and shadowy characters, and the ultimate stage for football’s greatest drama? World Cup Fever is the story of how the tournament touches and sometimes even changes lives, by one of our best writers on the beautiful game.