Soccer money.

Summary On October 26, 1863, at the Freemasons' Tavern at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, seventeen representatives of English public schools met to unify the rules of soccer, which then varied from one college to another. These representatives were unaware that they were writing one of the important chapters in modern popular history. Thirteen representatives voted in favor of the thirteen laws that unified the rules of association soccer, including the divisive Rule 11: "One player may not pass the ball to another by hand" (the four voting against would later help create rugby). Did these precursors imagine that a century and a half later, the whole world would be watching a World Cup final? How did we go from a sport intended for the training of future English elites, or in France to a patronage practice, to this "universal business"? This book focuses on soccer in the so-called "post-modern" era, which began in the 1990s with the Bosman ruling, the explosion of TV rights, and the arrival of billionaires and states in the world of football. The objective is to shed light on the debate on soccer money by getting away from the conventional wisdom. The amount of transfers and salaries of footballers during the summer of 2017 have indeed not failed to generate strong criticism and catastrophic comments: the transfer "bubble" will explode . the economic "boom" of soccer will lead to the "crash" and "crisis" . the economic model of soccer is not "sustainable" ... Are these criticisms and fears founded? Is it really the end of soccer as some people claim?