Angels With Dirty Faces

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid won the National Sporting Club Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. His other books include Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football ; Sunderland: A Club Transformed ; The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches ; Nobody Ever Says Thank You , a critically acclaimed biography of Brian Clough; The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper ; The Anatomy of Liverpool ; Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina; and The Anatomy of Manchester United . He writes for the Guardian , Sports Illustrated and World Soccer , and he is the editor of The Blizzard . Follow him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jonawils Klappentext The fully revised and updated definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid Vorwort The fully revised and updated definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid Zusammenfassung 'ABSORBING' Guardian 'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman ' EPIC ' Evening Standard 'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times 'MAGISTERIAL' Irish Examiner Fully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistua, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi... Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Jonathan Wilson, having lived in Buenos Aires, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breathes football, its theories and its myths. Fully revised and updated, this new edition looks at the contrasting evolution of Argentinian football over the last ten years; from the chaos and violence of the abandoned 2018 Copa Libertadores final between River Plate and Boca Juniors to the revitalised national side under manager Lionel Scaloni, which triumphed at the 2019 Copa América and the 2022 World Cup. ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES is the definitive history of a great footballing nation and its many paradoxes. ...

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Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid won the National Sporting Club Book of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. His other books include Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football; Sunderland: A Club Transformed; The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches; Nobody Ever Says Thank You, a critically acclaimed biography of Brian Clough; The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper; The Anatomy of Liverpool; Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina; and The Anatomy of Manchester United. He writes for the Guardian, Sports Illustrated and World Soccer, and he is the editor of The Blizzard.

Follow him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jonawils

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The fully revised and updated definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid