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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition
Alex Bellos
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Description for Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition
Paperback. The Brazilian football team is one of the modern wonders of the world. Travelling extensively from the coastal cities of Rio de Janiero and Sao Paolo to the Amazon jungle, Bellos shows how Brazil changed football and how football shaped Brazil." Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 x 12 page colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 410.
The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary names like Pelé, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. But in Latin America’s largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the madness of love and the flamboyance of youth – it’s a sport that expresses the identity of a nation. This edition of a book that is now a modern classic, updated to coincide with the 2014 World Cup, explores what makes Brazil the ‘football country’ it is. From the Amazonian jungle to the cities of São ... Read more
The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary names like Pelé, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. But in Latin America’s largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the madness of love and the flamboyance of youth – it’s a sport that expresses the identity of a nation. This edition of a book that is now a modern classic, updated to coincide with the 2014 World Cup, explores what makes Brazil the ‘football country’ it is. From the Amazonian jungle to the cities of São ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408854167
SKU
V9781408854167
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About Alex Bellos
Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. He has worked for the Guardian in London and Rio de Janeiro, where he was the paper's foreign correspondent. In 2006 he ghostwrote Pelé's autobiography, which was a number one bestseller, and he is also the author of the bestselling Alex's Adventures in Numberland. @alexbellos www.alexbellos.com
Reviews for Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition
A thrilling picture of Brazilian society and its football which neatly combines reportage with sporting analysis
Observer
Magnificent ... Bellos has managed to perfectly capture the chaos and corruption and the romance and obsession and the feeling of what it’s like to live in a genuinely football-obsessed nation
FourFourTwo
Hugely entertaining ... Required reading for anyone ... Read more
Observer
Magnificent ... Bellos has managed to perfectly capture the chaos and corruption and the romance and obsession and the feeling of what it’s like to live in a genuinely football-obsessed nation
FourFourTwo
Hugely entertaining ... Required reading for anyone ... Read more