A singular passion? The World Cups and the countries of Latin America and Europe (1962-2026)
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countries (the United States, Canada, and Mexico), the editorial board of Materiales para la Historia del Deporte has devoted a special issue to this competition examined through the prism of Latinity. The historiography of the World Cup in football history is extensive, as illustrated by the works of Dietschy, Gastaut, and Mourlane (2006), Wahl (2013), Rinke and Schiller (2014), Brizzi and Sbetti (2018), and González-Aja (2023), as well as the special issues published by ISTOR (2018), Soccer &
Society (2020 and 2022), and Football(s). Histoire, culture, économie, société (2022). Nevertheless, the historical object constituted by the FIFA World Cup remains far from exhausted.
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