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God is round : tackling the giants, villains, triumphs, and scandals of the world's favorite game / Juan Villoro ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Villoro, Juan, 1956- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Soccer.
- Soccer--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- What was the greatest goal of all time? Why do the Hungarians have a more philosophical sense of defeat than the Mexicans? Do the dead play soccer? On a planet where FIFA has more members than the United Nations, Juan Villoro's examination of soccer and its 3.5 billion-person fandom has stakes beyond those of such playful questions. Soccer is more than just a game; it is a catalyst for panglobal unity and even, Villoro suggests, the "recovery of childhood."
- Contents:
- Onetti the ticket vendor
- Winter champion: fandom in the first person
- The final passion
- When a goal is more than a goal
- The football and the head
- The peculiarity of being two-legged
- The deaths of others
- Magic number 10
- Diego Armando Maradona: life, death, resurrection, and a little more besides
- Ronaldo: the way of all flesh
- A diatribe against Cristiano Ronaldo
- Lionel Messi: childhood prefigurations
- Blood on the terraces: violence in the business of FIFA.
- Notes:
- "With essay selections from Dios es redondo and Balón dividido."--Title verso
- ISBN:
- 1632060582
- 9781632060587
- OCLC:
- 918284832
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