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Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina

Jonathan Wilson
4.25/5 (1028 ratings)
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Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Román Riquelme, Sergio Agüero, Lionel Messi ... Argentina is responsible for some of the greatest footballers on the planet. Their rich, volatile history is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic.

Argentina is a nation obsessed with football, and Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the five phases of Argentinian football: the appropriation of the British game; the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the country into isolation; a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol; the fusing of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti; and the ludicrous (albeit underachieving) creative talent of recent times.

More than any other nation Argentina lives and breathes football, its theories and myths. The subject is fiercely debated on street corners and in cafes. It has even preoccupied the country's greatest writers and philosophers.

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is the definitive history of a great footballing nation and its paradoxes.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
559 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Orion
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1409144437
ISBN13:
9781409144434
kindle Asin:
B01DWVG8FE

Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina

Jonathan Wilson
4.25/5 (1028 ratings)
Read Download
Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Román Riquelme, Sergio Agüero, Lionel Messi ... Argentina is responsible for some of the greatest footballers on the planet. Their rich, volatile history is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic.

Argentina is a nation obsessed with football, and Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the five phases of Argentinian football: the appropriation of the British game; the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the country into isolation; a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol; the fusing of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti; and the ludicrous (albeit underachieving) creative talent of recent times.

More than any other nation Argentina lives and breathes football, its theories and myths. The subject is fiercely debated on street corners and in cafes. It has even preoccupied the country's greatest writers and philosophers.

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is the definitive history of a great footballing nation and its paradoxes.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
559 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Orion
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1409144437
ISBN13:
9781409144434
kindle Asin:
B01DWVG8FE

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