Futebol nation : the story of Brazil through soccer / David Goldblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldblatt, David, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Brazil.

Soccer.

Soccer players.

Brazil--Social life and customs.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : PublicAffairs, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Pelé, Garrincha, Rivaldo, Zico, Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Curious Rise of the Futebol Nation; 1. Champagne Football: The Game of the Belle Epoque, 1889-1922; 2. Modern Times? Football and the Death of the Old Republic, 1922-1932; 3. Brasilidade: Football and the New Order, 1932-1950; 4. Brasilia and the Ball: Inventing the Beautiful Game, 1950-1964; 5. Playing the Hard Line: Football under the Dictatorship, 1964-1986; 6. Magic and Dreams are Dead: Pragmatism, Politics and Football, 1986-2002; 7. Futebol Nation Redux: The Game in Lula's Brazil, 2002-2013

8. Copa das Manifestacoes: Civil War in the Futebol Nation, 2013-2014Coda: February 2014; Notes; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-56858-468-7