Futebol Nation: The Story Of Brazil Through Soccer

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Synopsis
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 Pele, 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 sociological realities.

Copyright:
2014

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
320 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781568584683
Related ISBNs:
9781568584676
Publisher:
Nation Books
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
David Goldblatt
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Sports
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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