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Author: Nina Clara Tiesler
Research Fellow, PhD
Institutional affiliation: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
Address: Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt no. 9, 1600-189 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail:
ninaclara.tiesler@ics.ul.ptT: +351-96 332 7994
The following manuscript is original and not under consideration for publication
anywhere else.
Author Bio
Nina Clara Tiesler is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University
of Lisbon.
Correspondence to: N.C. Tiesler, ICS-UL, Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt, no. 9, 1600-189
Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail:
ninaclara.tiesler@ics.ul.ptBiographical note:
Nina Clara Tiesler, Dr. phil. in Comparative Studies of Religion, is a Research Fellow at
the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, where she is working in the
areas of Sociology and Anthropology with special focus on Migration Studies. She
belongs to the coordinating group of the Football Migration Network and was Principal
Investigator of the international team project on the role of football among
Portuguese Diaspora communities in six different countries, funded by the Portuguese
Foundation of Science and Technology (2007-2011). Currently she holds a João
Havelange Research Grant to study the globalisation of women’s football.