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Taking its title from Pelé's famous description of soccer, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME looks at the good, the bad and the ugly in the entire range of the Latin American football experience, from the giants of Brazil and Argentina through up-and-coming nations such as Colombia and Bolivia to the beleaguered football minnows of Nicaragua. At the heart of Latin American football lurks a paradox. On the field dazzling skills have bought Brazil four World Cups and made Latin America a synonym for footballing wizardry. Off the field, the game has entered into a dangerously over-familiar relationship with the world of drug trafficking and big business. Updated to cover the 1998 World Cup in France, The Beautiful Game provides an incisive and lively account of how soccer is integrated into Latin American culture, politics and society.
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Latin America is soccer's spiritual home, and Latin Americans are high on any list of the game's greatest ever players: Pelé, Di Stefano, Maradona, Ronaldo . . . Any debate about the game's greatest ever teams begins with the Brazil sides of 1958 and 1970.
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Latin Americans feature highly on any list of soccer's greatest ever players, and all debate about the greatest ever team begins with the Brazil sides of 1958 and 1970. Off the pitch however, there are complex and often shady links with big business and organized crime. Taking its title from Pele's famous description of soccer, this work looks at the good, the bad and the ugly in the entire range of Latin American football, from the giants of Brazil and Argentina through up-and-coming nations such as Colombia and Bolivia to the football minnows of Nicaragua. Updated to cover the 1998 World Cup, this is an account of soccer's integration into Latin American society, politics, and culture.
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0753808773
- ISBN 13 9780753808771
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages288
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