Futebol Nation
A Footballing History of Brazil
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2014
Summary
No nation has so closely aligned its national identity with playing and watching football as Brazil.
Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow shirts a delightful amalgam of sport and art, entwined with its cultures of music and religion. This is true, but there is another side to the story too. Brazil may now be the sixth largest economy in the world but the corruption of its football authorities is characteristic of its society as a whole.
To write the history of Br…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241969779 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241969778 |
| Author: | David Goldblatt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A gripping account of how football captured a nation
A gripping account of how football captured a nation * Telegraph *
A breezy, readable and nuanced primer to the centrality of football to Brazilian life – Jonathan Wilson * New Statesman *
Compelling, lucidly written, and furnished with detail to spare * PA *
Futebol Nation isn’t really about sport - it’s a pimples-and-all portrait of the world’s sixth
largest country and the many ways it has succeeded in shooting itself in both feet
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965 and is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspurs and Bristol Rovers. He teaches sociology at Bristol University, reviews sports books for the TLS, and for some years wrote the Sporting Life column in Prospect magazine.
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