Invention of the Beautiful Game
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football
futbol
Getulio Vargas
Gregg Bocketti
international competition
Invention of the Beautiful Game
invention of tradition
modern
nationalism
nineteenth century
populism
Soccer history
Soccer players
Social aspects
Social life and customs
South America
sports history
sports journalism
tradition
twentieth
World Cup
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- ISBN 9780813062556
- Weight: 616g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as “football” at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian “futebol,” o jogo bonito (the beautiful game). Bocketti examines the sport and its narratives, which usually depict soccer as having evolved from a white elite pastime to an integral part of Brazil’s national identity known for its passion and creativity, and explains the ways that the popular history of the game has obscured many of the complexities and the continuities of the history of soccer and of Brazil.
Mining a rich trove of sources, including contemporary sports journalism, archives of Brazilian soccer clubs, and British ministry records, and looking in detail at soccer’s effect on all parts of Brazilian society, Bocketti shows how important the sport is to an understanding of Brazilian nationalism and nation building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Mining a rich trove of sources, including contemporary sports journalism, archives of Brazilian soccer clubs, and British ministry records, and looking in detail at soccer’s effect on all parts of Brazilian society, Bocketti shows how important the sport is to an understanding of Brazilian nationalism and nation building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gregg Bocketti, is associate professor of history at Transylvania University, USA.
