Country of Football Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil

Name: Country of Football Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil
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ISBN: 9780520279094

ISBN-10: 0520279093

ISBN-13: 9780520279094

Edition: 2014

Authors: Roger Kittleson

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Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian.Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and economic power. The ongoing debate over how Team Brazil should play and positively represent a…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/12/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English