The Country of Football : Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kittleson, Roger Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationalbewusstsein
Fussball
Soccer players.
Soccer.
Manners and customs.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
Soccer players > Brazil > History.
Soccer > Brazil > History.
Brasilien
Brazil.
Bresil > Moeurs et coutumes.
Brazil > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A National Game: Futebol Made Popular, Professional, and Afro-Brazilian
  • 2. When It was Good to be Brazilian: Tropical Modernity Affirmed, 1958-70
  • 3. Playing Modern: Efficiency over Art, 1971-80
  • 4. Risky Beauty: Art and the Opening of Brazil in the 1980s
  • 5. The Business of Winning: Brand Brazil and the New Globalism, 1990-2010
  • Conclusion: Mega-Brazil.

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