Previously published as a special issue of Soccer and society.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann -- Football as Code : The Social Diffusion of Soccer in South Africa / Lloyd Hill -- White Football in South Africa : Empire, Apartheid and Change, 1892 -1977 / Chris Bolsmann -- A Biography of Darius Dhlomo : Transnational Footballer in the Era of Apartheid / Peter Alegi -- Women and Gender in South African Soccer / Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak -- "You Must Support Chiefs : Pirates Already Have Two White Fans!" : Race and Racial Discourse in South African Football Fandom / Marc Fletcher -- "It wasn't that I did not like South African Football" : Media, History, and Biography / Sean Jacobs -- Soccer in a Rugby Town : Restructuring Football in Stellenbosch / Sylvain Cubizolles -- Differing Trajectories : Football Development and Patterns of Player Migration in South Africa and Ghana / Paul Darby and Eirik Solberg -- Football's Tsars : Proprietorship, Corporatism and Politics in the 2010 FIFA World Cup / Scarlett Cornelissen -- Sports as Cultural Diplomacy : The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa's Foreign Policy / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu -- World Cup 2010 : Africa's Turn or the Turn on Africa? / Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed -- The 2010 FIFA World Cup : Critical Voices From Below / Percy Ngonyama