The chapter begins with the story of football in post-communist Hungary, where populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose idol was Ferenc Puskás, both traded on and rejected the country’s proud footballing past under communism. The lens is then widened to examine – via Red Star Belgrade’s victory in the 1991 European Cup final and the parallel bloody collapse of Yugoslavia – football’s role at the end of the Cold War, during a decade, the 1990s, in which both global politics and global football were radically transformed by the uncontested ascendancy of capitalism. The conclusion also looks at the afterlives of some of the key figures from the ten chapters and reflects on the book’s key themes. It finishes by bringing the story of football, politics and war into the twenty-first century, via the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.