The country of football : soccer and the making of modern Brazil / Roger Kittleson.

By:

Kittleson, Roger Alan

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Sport in world history ; 2.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520958258
052095825X
1306498473
9781306498470

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Country of Football.DDC classification:

796.3340981 23

LOC classification:

GV944.B7

Other classification:

HIS037000 | HIS033000 | SPO040000

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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.

Summary: 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.

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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 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.