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Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Sporting) by Grant Farred is a sports available to read on EtoBox.
What is Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Sporting) about?
Grant Farred is a lifelong soccer fan. He has been rooting for one team -- Liverpool (England) Football Club -- since he was a child. Long Distance Love explains how "football" opened up the world to a young boy growing up disenfranchised in apartheid South Africa. For Farred, being a soccer fan enabled him to establish connections with events and people throughout history and from around the globe: from the Spanish Civil War to the atrocities of the Argentine dictatorship of the 1970s and '80s,
Who reads Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Sporting)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Grant Farred
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781592133734
- Category
- sports
- Subjects
- Sports, Psychology, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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