Football in Asia

Younghan Cho is Associate Professor of Korean Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, South Korea). He is co-editor of many special issues including Glocalization of Sports in Asia, Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives, Colonial Modernity and Beyond , and American Pop Culture.

• 1. Introduction: football in Asia 2. The slow contagion of Scottish example: association football in nineteenthcentury colonial Singapore 3. From shamateurism to pioneer of Asia’s professional football: the introduction of professional football in Hong Kong 4. The politics of Indonesian and Turkish soccer: a comparative analysis 5. ‘Hamlet without the Prince’: understanding Singapore–Malaysian relations through football 6. The otherness of self: football, fandom and fragmented (sub) nationalism in Bengal 7. ‘Hope for the win and hope for the defeat’: constructions of South Korean identity and the 2010 FIFAWorld Cup 8. South Asia and South-East Asia: new paths of African footballer migration 9. Twenty years of development of the J-League: analysing the business parameters of professional football in Japan 10. Latin America, football and the Japanese diaspora 11. ‘A’ is for Australia: New Football’s billionaires, consumers and the ‘Asian Century’. How the A-League defines the new Australia 12. Australia, Asia and the new football opportunity