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Jamie Trecker - Love and Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks - 9780156030984 - KRS0001339
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Love and Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks

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Description for Love and Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks Paperback.
Every four years the thirty-two-team, sixty-four-game World Cup captivates the planet's populace for a month. Work absenteeism skyrockets. Political campaigns grind to a halt. Fans mortgage their houses to buy tickets. And teams employ every means possible - even consulting witch doctors and astrologers - in their quest for national glory.Veteran soccer commentator Jamie Trecker travelled to Germany for FIFA World Cup 2006. Here, reported from the restaurants, trains, bars, town squares, hostels, press boxes, and brothels, is his unvarnished account of the games and parties, great plays and fistfights, gossip and tacky souvenirs that turn the largest sporting event ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harcourt Trade
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780156030984
SKU
KRS0001339
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

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