Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer

by David Goldblatt

Book Overview

No 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.

Futebol Nation is an extraordinary chronicle of a nation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568584679
• ISBN13: 9781568584676
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"