we are joined by the editor, heather dichter who is an associate professor of a support history sportent at de monfort university as well as by two contributors roy mccree, a senior fellow at the sir arthur lewis institute of social and economic studies at the university of the west indies and a professor of contemporary history at the university. finally, last but not least we are joined by myoi colleague who is here as a resident scholar so we will talk about the book in general, about specific chapters and some other issues related to the concept of "soccer diplomacy". if you have questions, please submit them either by twitter, e-mail and details are on the event's stage. with that, welcome to our esteemed panelists. i'm going to start with a few questions for heather. you are the editor of the volume explain what y is the idea behid the volume, what are the topics you try to cover, what is the mission of the project. >> thanks so much for having us to talk about "soccer diplomacy" at this point, in a lot of different scholars who worked on "soccer diplomacy" so i think it brings