Angels with Dirty Faces
Wilson, Jonathan
| Autor: | Wilson, Jonathan |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Sports & Recreation |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 23.08.2016 |
| EAN: | 9781568585512 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 448 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | PublicAffairs |
| Untertitel: | How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever |
Produktinformationen "Angels with Dirty Faces"
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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