THE BEAUTIFUL GAME - LATIN AMERICAN FOOTBALL -1998

A Journey Through Latin American Football.

Latin Americans are high on any list of the game's greatest ever players: Pele, Di Stefano, Maradona, Ronaldo....

Any debate about the game's greatest ever teams begins with the Brazil sides of 1958 and 1970.

And the opening of the domestic game in Britain to foreign players has made the skills of Latin Americans such as Juninho and Asprilla a familiar sight on out grounds.

Taking its title from Pele's famous description of soccer, The Beautiful Game looks at the good, the bad and the ugly in the entire range of the Latin American football experience - from the giants of Brazil and Argentina through up-and-coming nations such as Columbia and Bolivia to the beleguered football minnows of Nicaragua.

At the heart of Latin American football lurks a paradox.  On the field, dazzling skills have brought Brazil four World Cups and made Latin America a synonym for football wizardry.  Off the field, the game has into a dangerously over-familiar relationship with the worlds of drug trafficking and big business.

Structured around first-hand accounts of matches dueing the build-up to the 1998 World Cup in France, and interviews with such footballing legends as Rattin and Zico, this book provides an incisive and lively account of how soccer is integrated into Latin American culture, politics and society.

This 288 page hardcover is illustrated with black and white photographs.  The dustjacket has very light creases to edges and the tiniest patches of wear to corners, but is otherwise in a very good, tight, clean condition inside and out.  A great one for the soccer fans.....at a great price!

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