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Sto caricando le informazioni... Love and Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaksdi Jamie Trecker
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Every four years the thirty-two-team, sixty-four-game World Cup captivates the planet's populace for a month. Work absenteeism skyrockets. Political campaigns grind to a halt. Fans mortgage their houses to buy tickets. And teams employ every means possible-even consulting witch doctors and astrologers-in their quest for national glory. Veteran soccer commentator Jamie Trecker traveled to Germany for FIFA World Cup 2006. Here, reported from the restaurants, trains, bars, town squares, hostels, press boxes, and brothels, is his unvarnished account of the games and parties, great plays and fistfights, gossip and tacky souvenirs that turn the largest sporting event on earth into a true world bazaar. With equal measures insight and irreverence, Trecker captures the passion, politics, controversies, and economics that make soccer a reflection of the world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A note about the reviews on Amazon and similar sites: Ignore the bad reviews that have anything to do with Trecker's criticism of American soccer organizations. First, true football nuts agree: there are many problems with the way Americans are encouraged to view the sport and any organization that cultivates nonsense about the sport should be held in contempt. Many Americans believe soccer is an activity, rather than a sport, a thing that kids do and that all kids can do in order to feel good about themselves and treated fairly in competition. FUCKING NONSENSE. Rightly, imo, Trecker has been highly critical and sharply provocative regarding Major League Soccer and the American Youth Soccer Organization.
Anyway, if you are critical of youth soccer in the United States, you'll soon find thousands of soccer moms and dads from the sparkling suburban set ready to wage a campaign against anything you do. That's the source of the majority of the negative reviews.
The bottom line: Trecker is a talented writer who loves the sport. He can entertain you if you're a long time fan. In addition, he provides citations and biblographies. SO, if you're a new acolyte to the sport, you're never lost.
As with all true soccer fans, who know the sport, Trecker can sound contrary to himself. We are a strange bunch, footy fans. But we all view soccer as a mirror, an extension, of life with all its paradoxes.
Anyway...thoroughly pleased with this book. I was upset when I finished. ( )