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Sto caricando le informazioni... Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Footballdi Jonathan Wilson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Good one! An interesting look into post Soviet eastern Europe, through the looking glass of football. This book is not really about football but about what happens (in football) globally and how that has affected (football) in the former eastern bloc. You could substitute the word 'football' with 'economy' or 'power structure' - here they are on equal terms. The story had benefited from a chart mapping out all persons, clubs and connections, because in the end all the names starts to be confusing, and you either flip through the pages in a bid to keep track OR you decide to focus on the general story rather than on which -iv or -enko did what when, to whom. Another minus for the apparently non existent proof reading - lots of typos... Aside from that this is strongly recommended read for anyone interested in either or all of the subjects mentioned here. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
From the pock-marked streets of Sarajevo, where turning up for training involved dodging snipers' bullets, to the crumbling splendour of Budapest's Bozsik Stadium, where the likes of Puskás and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the landscape of Eastern Europe has changed immeasurably since the fall of communism. Jonathan Wilson has travelled extensively behind the old Iron Curtain, viewing life beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall through the lens of football. Where once the state controlled teams of the Eastern bloc passed their way with crisp efficiency -- a sort of communist version of total football -- to considerable success on the European and international stages, today the beautiful game in the East has been opened up to the free market, and throughout the region a sense of chaos pervades. The threat of totalitarian interference no longer remains; but in its place mafia control is generally accompanied with a crippling lack of funds. As a teenager Jonathan Wilson holidayed in the former Yugoslavia; as a young journalist for onefootball.com and the Financial Times his obsession with the region took root. Here, in Behind the Curtain, he covers a vast amount of ground: he goes in search of the spirit of the Aranycsapat, Hungary's 'Golden Squad' of the early fifties, charts the disintegration of the footballing superpower that was the former Yugoslavia, follows a sorry tale of corruption, mismanagement and Armenian cognac through the Caucasuses, reopens the case of Russia's greatest footballer, Eduard Streltsov, and talks to Jan Tomaszewski about an autumn night at Wembley in 1973. In terms of travel writing and sports writing, Behind the Curtain has a canvas as wide as, and is a worthy successor to, Football Against the Enemy. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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