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A passionate look at the history of the most popular sport - football - in the most romantic of countries - Brazil The Brazilian football team is one of the modern wonders of the world. At its best it exudes a skill, flamboyance and romantic pull like nothing else on earth. Football is how the world sees Brazil and how Brazilians see themselves. The game symbolises racial harmony, flamboyance, youth, innovation and skill, and yet football is also a microcosm of Latin America's largest country and contains all of its contradictions. Travelling extensively from the Uruguayan border to the northeastern backlands, from the coastal cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to the Amazon jungle -Bellos shows how Brazil changed football and how football shaped Brazil. He tells the stories behind the great players, like Pele and Garrincha, between the great teams, like Corinthians and Vasco de Gama, and the great matches, as well as extraordinary stories from people and pitches all over this vast country. With an unerring eye for a good story and a marvellous ear for the voices of the people he meets, Alex Bellos describes the startling range of football spinoffs found in Brazil; from Autoball, literally football with cars and a giant leather ball to Ecoball, played in the heart of the rainforest, from Button football and its highly regulated procedures organised by fearsome Buttonistas to the truly alarming Footbull (yes with bulls).
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Futebol: the Brazilian way of life
2014, Bloomsbury USA, Bloomsbury
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Sambavoetbal: beleef de Braziliaanse voetbalcultuur
2014, Kosmos Uitgevers
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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition
2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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1408854163 9781408854167
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Zu qiu: Baxi ren de sheng huo fang shi = Futebol : the Brazilian way of life
2006, Yi lin chu ban she
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7544700399 9787544700399
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Futebol: Soccer: The Brazilian Way
May 1, 2003, Bloomsbury USA
Paperback
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1582342873 9781582342870
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Futebol: Soccer: The Brazilian Way
May 3, 2002, Bloomsbury USA
Hardcover
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Futebol: O Brasil Em Campo
2002, Jorge Zahar
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8571106932 9788571106932
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Futebol: Soccer, the Brazilian Way
November 30, 2002, Diane Pub Co
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in English
0756785030 9780756785031
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Futebol: the Brazilian way of life
2002, Bloomsbury
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-384).
First published in London, 2002.
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