Dark Goals: How History’s Worst Tyrants Have Used and Abused the Game of Soccer

"All manner of scoundrels, strongmen (and strongwomen) have sought to use “The Beautiful Game” as a canvas for their philosophies. Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, tried to use soccer to elevate Nazism. In Argentina, Evita Perón made it clear which team should be ascendant – and what would befall those who didn’t see to it. And the list goes on. Dark Goals chronicles the ways that the world’s most popular and democratic sport has laundered the reputations of nations and their leaders. As you watch the World Cup in Qatar, listen carefully for the echoes of a complicated past that is prologue."