Prologue - imperialism, sport, globalization, J.A. Mangan; reconstructing the Fatherland - German Turnen in southern Brazil in the 19th and 20th centuries, Leoman Tesche and Artur Blasio Rambo; educators, imitators, modernizers - the arrival and spread of modern sport in Japan, Allen Guttman and Lee Thompson; Confucianism, imperialism, nationalism - modern sport in Singapore, J.A. Mangan and Nam-Gil Ha; complex Creolization - the evolution of modern sport in Singapore, Peter A. Horton; globalization, the Games ethic and imperialism - further aspects of the diffusion of an ideal, J.A.Mangan and Colm Hickey; linesmen, referees and arbitrators - politics, modernization and soccer in Palestine, Amir Ben Porat; charging Amazons and fair invaders: the Dick Kerr's ladies soccer tour of North America of 1922 - sowing seed, Ali Melling; the Soviet protege - Cuba, modern sport and Communist comrades, Bob Chappell; from East to West: the way of the master - Oriental martial arts and modern European culture, Hans Bonde; the new scramble for Africa - the African football labour migration to Europe, Paul Darby; more than Matches of the Century for world footballing honours - Englan versus Italy, 1933, 1934 and 1939, Peter J. Beck.