Football, or soccer as it is referred to in a few countries, has arguably become the world's most popular sporting game. In The country of football, all three authors discuss soccer as possibly being a way towards upward mobility. As Fatima Antunes focuses on workers and factories, Gregory Jackson focuses on the professionalization of soccer, and Clement Astruc discusses football as a profession for people of color in Brazil. For the most part, the studies put together by editor Paulo Fontes are well thought out and put together complimenting each other as the story progresses, from the introduction of football to South America, to the World Cup game that takes place in Brazil in 2014. Fatima Martin Rodrigues Ferreira Antunes begins her chapter
