{"product_id":"futebol-nation-paperback-1","title":"Futebol Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Goldblatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFutebol Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary chronicle of a nation that has won the World Cup five times and produced players of miraculous skill, such as Pel', Garrincha, Rivaldo, Zico, Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho. It shows why the phrase \u003ci\u003eO Jogo Bonito\u003c\/i\u003e -- the Beautiful Game -- has justly entered the global lexicon. Yet there is another side to Brazil and its game, one that reflects the harsh sociological realities of the \"futebol nation.\" David Goldblatt explores the grinding poverty that creates a vast pool of hungry players, Brazil's corrupt institutions exemplified by its soccer authorities, and the pervasive violence that has seeped onto the field and into the stands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFutebol Nation\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates both Brazilian soccer and Brazil itself; its brilliance, its magic, its style, and the fabulous myths that have been constructed around it; as well as its tragedies, its miseries, and its economic and political injustices. It is the story of Brazil told through its chosen national game.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Goldblatt\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1965 and lives in Bristol. He shares his affections between Tottenham Hotspur and Bristol Rovers. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ball is Round: A Global History of Football\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFutebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer\u003c\/i\u003e. Since then he has made sport documentaries for BBC Radio, reviewed sports books for the TLS and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, taught the sociology of sport at Bristol University, the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester and Pitzer College, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45776137846981,"sku":"9781568584676","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/AvBkTKyR7H9781568584676_3bfb6ec6-1b71-42b1-924e-4ff3696e5aef.webp?v=1770543909","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/futebol-nation-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}