Futebol The Brazilian Way of Life

Name: Futebol The Brazilian Way of Life
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ISBN: 9781620402443

ISBN-10: 1620402440

ISBN-13: 9781620402443

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alex Bellos

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Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians see themselves. The essence of their game is one in which prodigious individual skills outshine team tactics, where dribbles and delicate flicks are preferred over physical challenges or long-distance passes, where technique has all the elements of dance and, indeed, is often described as such. At their best, Brazilian soccer players are both athletes and artists. As Alex Bellos brilliantly reveals in his classic book, their game can symbolize racial harmony, flamboyance, youth, innovation, and skill—in short, it’s a microcosm of the country itself.Bellos, a veteran…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 5/6/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.22" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 0.968

Alex Bellos is the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland, which was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. He is the Guardian's maths-blogger, and has worked for the paper in London and Rio de Janeiro as its unusually numerate foreign correspondent. He is a curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford. He lives in London.