European Football and Collective Memory

1. Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective
Wolfram Pyta

2. How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football
Tobias Werron

3. Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups
Jürgen Mittag

4. UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory — Cups of Identity?
Michael Groll

5. The Contribution of Real Madrid’s First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space
Borja García-García, Ramón Llopis-Goig, Agustín Martín

6. Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: The Case of the 1960 European Cup Final
Geoff Hare

7. Erecting a European ‘Lieu de mémoire’? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the ‘Wembley Goal’
Jean Christophe Meyer

8. George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?
David Ranc

9. Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe’s Collective Memory
Clemens Kech

10. Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945–1991
Seweryn Dmowski

11. Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football
Markwart Herzog

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology, general, Cultural History, Media Studies, Popular Science in Sports, Regional and Cultural Studies