Angels with dirty faces : the footballing history of Argentina
Wilson, Jonathan, 1976-2023
Book
The definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid 'ABSORBING' Guardian'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman'EPIC' Evening Standard'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times'MAGISTERIAL' Irish ExaminerFully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the PyramidAlfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistua, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi... Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Jonathan Wilson, having lived in Buenos Aires, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breathes football, its theories and its myths.Fully revised and updated, this new edition looks at the contrasting evolution of Argentinian football over the last ten years; from the chaos and violence of the abandoned 2018 Copa Libertadores final between River Plate and Boca Juniors to the revitalised national side under manager Lionel Scaloni, which triumphed at the 2019 Copa Amrica and the 2022 World Cup.ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is the definitive history of a great footballing nation and its many paradoxes.
Main title:
Angels with dirty faces : the footballing history of Argentina / Jonathan Wilson.
Author:
Wilson, Jonathan, 1976-, author
Edition:
New paperback edition.
Imprint:
London : Seven Dials, 2023.©2023
Collation:
xii, 583 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"Fully revised and updated" --Title page.Originally published: 2016.Previous edition: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781399621298 (paperback)1399621297
Dewey class:
796.3340982796.33409
LC class:
GV944.A7
Language:
English
BRN:
2092060