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James Riordan (10 October 1936 – 10 February 2012〔(Portsmouth News: Popular columnist Jim Riordan dies )〕〔Obituary on BBC Radio 4's Last Word http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01by9ll#p00pb1l9〕) was an English novelist, broadcaster, sports historian, association football player and Russian scholar. Well known for his work ''Sport in Soviet Society'', the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels. He claims to have been the first Briton to play football in the USSR, playing for FC Spartak Moscow in 1963. == Life and career == Born in Portsmouth in 1936, James Riordan learned to speak Russian during National Service training in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957. In 1960, he graduated in Russian Studies at the University of Birmingham, before qualifying as a teacher at the London Institute of Education. In 1963, Riordan studied at the Communist higher party school in Moscow; he was an avowed Communist, and was one of the few English students at the school. His autobiography ''Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak'' includes an account of his games for Spartak Moscow; some Russian commentators have questioned these claims.〔http://www.utro.ru/articles/2008/04/18/731703.shtml〕 When he returned to England he became lecturer at Bradford University before moving on to the University of Surrey at Guildford where became head of the Russian Department and was awarded a personal professorship. In 1980 he was the Olympic attache for the British Olympic Association of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He held an honorary doctorate of Grenoble University and was President (2003-5) and later Fellow of the European Committee for Sports History. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Riordan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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