A01=Roger Kittleson
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
athletes
Author_Roger Kittleson
automatic-update
brazil
brazilian football
brazilian national team
brazilian soccer
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=GTB
Category=GTM
Category=JHBS
Category=SFBC
Category=WSJA
class tensions
clubs
coaching
competition
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
entertainment
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
eq_sports-fitness
football
football players
football teams
history of soccer
international football
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€50 to €100
professional athletes
professional sports
PS=Active
racial tensions
soccer
soccer communities
soccer players
soccer teams
softlaunch
sport in world history series
sports
sports teams
star players
team brazil
the jogo bonito
world cup
Product details
- ISBN 9780520279087
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian. Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and economic power. The ongoing debate over how Team Brazil should play and positively represent a nation of demanding supporters bears on many crucial facets of a country riven by racial and class tensions. The Country of Football is filled with engaging stories of star players and other key figures, as well as extraordinary research on local, national, and international soccer communities. Soccer fans, scholars, and readers who are interested in the history of sport will emerge with a greater understanding of the complex relationship between Brazilian soccer and the nation's history.
Roger Kittleson is Professor of History at Williams College and the author of The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil: Porto Alegre, 1845--1895.
