The Beautiful Game

Journey Through Latin American Football

Chris Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

1999 | 2nd Revised edition
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History (Verlag)
978-0-7538-0877-1 (ISBN)

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From dazzling skills on the pitch to suspicious commercial influences, this work looks at the good, the bad and the ugly in the entire range of Latin American football. With coverage of the 1998 World Cup, it provides an incisive account of soccer's integration into Latin American society.

Latin Americans feature highly on any list of soccer's greatest ever players, and all debate about the greatest ever team begins with the Brazil sides of 1958 and 1970. Off the pitch however, there are complex and often shady links with big business and organized crime. Taking its title from Pele's famous description of soccer, this work looks at the good, the bad and the ugly in the entire range of Latin American football, from the giants of Brazil and Argentina through up-and-coming nations such as Colombia and Bolivia to the football minnows of Nicaragua. Updated to cover the 1998 World Cup, this is an account of soccer's integration into Latin American society, politics, and culture.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.9.1999
Zusatzinfo	8pp b&w plates
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 197 mm
Gewicht	285 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fußball
ISBN-10	0-7538-0877-3 / 0753808773
ISBN-13	978-0-7538-0877-1 / 9780753808771
Zustand	Neuware