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Autor: KUPER, SIMON
Editorial: CONTRA EDICIONES
Lenguaje: Español
ISBN13: 8493985031
Reseña: Some people believe football is a matter of life and death the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once remarked. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much much more important than that. In this one of the seminal books on soccer award-winning sports journalist Simon Kuper explores just how important the beautiful game can be throughout the world. Kuper traveled to 22 countries from Argentina to Cameroon from Ukraine to the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) from Brazil to South Africa and from the United States to Spain to investigate the powerful influence that soccer exerts on politics culture and society. The result part travelogue part sociopolitical essay is a fascinating and entertaining chronicle of the complex and secretive plots of ambition and power of individual and national passions of the sport s history and of course of the beauty of the world s most popular sport.
