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Angels with dirty faces : how Argentinian soccer defined a nation and changed the game forever / Jonathan Wilson.
Author
Wilson, Jonathan, 1976-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Nation Books, [2016]
©2016
Description
xviii, 411 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GV944.A7 W55 2016
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Summary note
Argentina has produced Alfredo Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi--some of the greatest soccer players of all time. The country's rich, volatile history is by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic. A nation obsessed with soccer, Argentina lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Jonathan Wilson lived in Buenos Aires, in an apartment between La Recoleta Cemetery--where the country's leading poets and politicians are buried--and the Huracán stadium. Like his apartment, Angels with Dirty Faces lies at the intersection of politics, literature, and sport. Here, he chronicles the evolution of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the country into isolation, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol, the fusing of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats in Maradona and Messi against a backdrop of economic turbulence.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-400) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Utopias and their discontents, 1535-2016
Part one: The birth of a nation, 1863-1930
This English game
A second birth
The global stage
Argentinidad
The coming of money
The Rioplatense supremacy
Part two: The golden age, 1930-1958
Days of glory
The coming of professionalism
The rise of River
Modernity and the Budapest butcher
The knights of anguish
The rise of Juan Perón
El Dorado
Back home
Our way
The zenith and beyond
The last of the angels
Part three: After the fall, 1958-1973
The death of innocence
The contrarian and the growth of anti-fútbol
The mouse's nest
The open market
The consecration of pragmatism
Back on the horse
El Caudillo
The moral victory
A peculiar glory
Scorning the path of roses
Part four: Rebirth and conflict, 1973-1978
A tainted triumph
The gypsy, the car salesman, and the old ways
The little pigeon
The miracle of Huracán
The return of Perón
Of heroes and chickens
The age of the devils
Lorenzo and the Boca fulfillment
The first steps to glory
Glory in a time of terror
Part five: A new hope, 1978-1990
The nativity
The unlikeliest champions
The pride of the nation
The return of anti-fútbol
Maradana in Europe
Optimism and the Libertadores
His finest hour
Burying the chicken
The Neapolitan glory
Moral champions again
Part six: Debt and disillusionment, 1990-2002
The third way
Tabárez and the Boca revival
The fatal urine of Foxborough
The rise of Vélez and the River revival
The failure of neoliberalism
The dwindling of a genius
The lure of the past
Boca's age of glory
The crash
Part seven: Over the water, 2002-2015
The second coming
The ascent from the abyss
The growth of the legend
The list in the sock
The ecstasy of gold
The end of the affair
Messi and the Messiah
Distrust and short-termism
Home discomforts
The little witch, the Pope, and the gleeful chicken
The ongoing drought
The eternal laurels.
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ISBN
9781568585512 ((paperback))
1568585519 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016009501
OCLC
944956374
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