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Author : Alex Bellos
Release : 2014-01-01
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 163/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Futebol by : Alex Bellos
Download or read book Futebol written by Alex Bellos. This book was released on 2014-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated edition of Alex Bellos's modern classic about Brazilian football, published to coincide with the 2014 World Cup
Author : David Goldblatt
Release : 2014-05-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Futebol Nation by : David Goldblatt
Download or read book Futebol Nation written by David Goldblatt. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futebol Nation by David Goldblatt - a thriling history of Brazil through its sporting passion From the genius of Pelé to corruption and civil unrest, no nation has so closely aligned its national identity with playing and watching football as Brazil. Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow shirts a delightful amalgam of sport and art, entwined with its cultures of music and religion. This is true, but there is another side to the story too. The corruption of Brazil's football authorities is characteristic of its society as a whole; some of its biggest tournaments have recently been played amidst the largest protests Brazil has ever seen. From the acclaimed author of the classic football history The Ball is Round, this book is the whole story: the players, the fans, the corruption, the passion. It will be enjoyed by readers of I am the Secret Footballer, The Numbers Game, Why England Lose and fans of football around the world. David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965 and is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspurs and Bristol Rovers. He teaches sociology at Bristol University, reviews sports books for the TLS, and for some years wrote the Sporting Life column in Prospect magazine. 'A tour de force of brilliant writing, historical colour and sporting vignette' Observer on The Ball is Round
Author : Rory Miller
Release : 2007
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Football in the Americas by : Rory Miller
Download or read book Football in the Americas written by Rory Miller. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football (soccer in the United States) has a long history in the Americas, but it currently displays many signs of crisis. In South America the combination of spectator violence, poor business management, and the emigration of players is undermining professional football. In the United States, in contrast, a professional league (Major League Soccer) has taken root in the last decade, and the U.S. women's team has gained international success. Football has always provided its players and fans with identity and belonging, whether to a nation or to a particular social group. It has been both a vehicle for the politically ambitious and an arena in which citizens can make sense of national failings and contest existing power structures. This volume explores many of these themes. The fifteen essays range widely, with theoretical and empirical contributions on the region as whole, as well as chapters specifically on Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and the United States.
Author : David Goldblatt
Release : 2014-05-13
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Futebol Nation by : David Goldblatt
Download or read book Futebol Nation written by David Goldblatt. This book was released on 2014-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Pelé, Garrincha, Rivaldo, Zico, Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho. It shows why the phrase O Jogo Bonito—the Beautiful Game—has justly entered the global lexicon. Yet there is another side to Brazil and its game, one that reflects the harsh sociological realities of the “futebol nation.” David Goldblatt explores the grinding poverty that creates a vast pool of hungry players, Brazil’s corrupt institutions exemplified by its soccer authorities, and the pervasive violence that has seeped onto the field and into the stands. Futebol Nation illuminates both Brazilian soccer and Brazil itself; its brilliance, its magic, its style, and the fabulous myths that have been constructed around it; as well as its tragedies, its miseries, and its economic and political injustices. It is the story of Brazil told through its chosen national game.
Author : Keir Radnedge
Release : 2014
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 999/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Brazil Futebol by : Keir Radnedge
Download or read book Brazil Futebol written by Keir Radnedge. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the history of soccer in Brazil, from its introduction into the nation in the 1870s through the present, and offers commentary on the cultural importance of the game while profiling superstar teams, players, and managers.
