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Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever
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Lieferstatus: |
Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
Veröffentlichung: |
August 2016
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Genre: |
Ratgeber |
ISBN: |
9781568585512 |
EAN-Code:
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9781568585512 |
Verlag: |
Publicaffairs |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 228 mm / B 151 mm / D 38 mm |
Gewicht: |
531 gr |
Seiten: |
448 |
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Inhalt: |
Argentina has produced Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi--some of the greatest soccer players of all time. The country's rich, volatile history is by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic. A nation obsessed with soccer, Argentina lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Jonathan Wilson lived in Buenos Aires, in an apartment between La Recoleta Cemetery--where the country's leading poets and politicians are buried--and the Huracaan stadium. Like his apartment, Angels with Dirty Faces lies at the intersection of politics, literature, and sport. Here, he chronicles the evolution of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Peraon led the country into isolation, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fabol, the fusing of beauty and efficacy under Casar Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats in Maradona and Messi against a backdrop of economic turbulence. |
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