https://www.academia.edu/38306987/A_Meditation_On_Association_Football_As_Global_Aesthetic
The link above leads to a paper I wrote (and rewrote) last year. It touches on the possibility of association football as a global aesthetic based on the ideas of Chinese philosopher Li Zehou, specifically within his work found in Four Essays On Aesthetics: Towards A Global View.
Afroxander (aka Iván Fernández) 