Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer
No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic. Futebol Nation is an extraordinary chronicle of a nation that has won the World Cup five times and produced players of miraculous skill, such as Pele, Garrincha, Rivaldo, Zico, Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho. It shows why the phrase O Jogo Bonito--the Beautiful Game--has just…
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- ISBN: 978-1-56858-467-6
- EAN: 9781568584676
- Produktnummer: 15749004
- Verlag: Bold Type Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.7 cm 334 g
- Gewicht: 334
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David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965 and lives in Bristol. He shares his affections between Tottenham Hotspur and Bristol Rovers. In 2006 he published The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football. Since then he has made sport documentaries for BBC Radio, reviewed sports books for the TLS and the Guardian, taught the sociology of sport at Bristol University, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles, and gone swimming.
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