The country of football [electronic resource] : soccer and the making of modern Brazil / Roger Kittleson.
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
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[2014]
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| Series: | Sport in world history ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. A National Game: Futebol Made Popular, Professional, and Afro-Brazilian
- 2. When It was Good to be Brazilian: Tropical Modernity Affirmed, 1958-70
- 3. Playing Modern: Efficiency over Art, 1971-80
- 4. Risky Beauty: Art and the Opening of Brazil in the 1980s
- 5. The Business of Winning: Brand Brazil and the New Globalism, 1990-2010
- Conclusion: Mega-Brazil.