Futebol Nation : the Story of Brazil through Soccer /
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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nation Books,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781568584683 1568584687 |