The Country of Football (eBook)

Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil

Roger Kittleson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
344 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95825-8 (ISBN)

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Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian. Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and economic power. The ongoing debate over how Team Brazil should play and positively represent a nation of demanding supporters bears on many crucial facets of a country riven by racial and class tensions. The Country of Football is filled with engaging stories of star players and other key figures, as well as extraordinary research on local, national, and international soccer communities. Soccer fans, scholars, and readers who are interested in the history of sport will emerge with a greater understanding of the complex relationship between Brazilian soccer and the nation's history.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Serious Play
1. A National Game: Futebol Made Popular, Professional, and Afro-Brazilian
2. When It was Good to be Brazilian: Tropical Modernity Affirmed, 1958–70
3. Playing Modern: Efficiency over Art, 1971–80
4. Risky Beauty: Art and the Opening of Brazil in the 1980s
5. The Business of Winning: Brand Brazil and the New Globalism, 1990–2010
Conclusion: Mega-Brazil

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Sport in World History
• Reihe/Serie: Sport in World History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Athletes • Brazil • brazilian football • brazilian national team • brazilian soccer • class tensions • Clubs • Coaching • Competition • Entertainment • Football • football players • football teams • history of soccer • international football • professional athletes • professional sports • racial tensions • Soccer • soccer communities • soccer players • soccer teams • sport in world history series • Sports • sports teams • star players • team brazil • the jogo bonito • World Cup
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95825-X / 052095825X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95825-8 / 9780520958258