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Angels with dirty faces how Argentinian soccer defined a nation and changed the game forever

Argentina has produced Alfredo Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi--some of the greatest soccer players of all time. The country's rich, volatile history is by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic. A nation obsessed with soccer, Argentina lives and breathes the game, its theories, and it...

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Main Author: Wilson, Jonathan, 1976- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Nation Books, [2016]
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Soccer > Argentina > History.
Soccer players > Argentina.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Utopias and their discontents, 1535-2016
  • Part one: The birth of a nation, 1863-1930
  • This English game
  • A second birth
  • The global stage
  • Argentinidad
  • The coming of money
  • The Rioplatense supremacy
  • Part two: The golden age, 1930-1958
  • Days of glory
  • The coming of professionalism
  • The rise of River
  • Modernity and the Budapest butcher
  • The knights of anguish
  • The rise of Juan Perón
  • El Dorado
  • Back home
  • Our way
  • The zenith and beyond
  • The last of the angels
  • Part three: After the fall, 1958-1973
  • The death of innocence
  • The contrarian and the growth of anti-fútbol
  • The mouse's nest
  • The open market
  • The consecration of pragmatism
  • Back on the horse
  • El Caudillo
  • The moral victory
  • A peculiar glory
  • Scorning the path of roses
  • Part four: Rebirth and conflict, 1973-1978
  • A tainted triumph
  • The gypsy, the car salesman, and the old ways
  • The little pigeon
  • The miracle of Huracán
  • The return of Perón
  • Of heroes and chickens
  • The age of the devils
  • Lorenzo and the Boca fulfillment
  • The first steps to glory
  • Glory in a time of terror
  • Part five: A new hope, 1978-1990
  • The nativity
  • The unlikeliest champions
  • The pride of the nation
  • The return of anti-fútbol
  • Maradana in Europe
  • Optimism and the Libertadores
  • His finest hour
  • Burying the chicken
  • The Neapolitan glory
  • Moral champions again
  • Part six: Debt and disillusionment, 1990-2002
  • The third way
  • Tabárez and the Boca revival
  • The fatal urine of Foxborough
  • The rise of Vélez and the River revival
  • The failure of neoliberalism
  • The dwindling of a genius
  • The lure of the past
  • Boca's age of glory
  • The crash
  • Part seven: Over the water, 2002-2015
  • The second coming
  • The ascent from the abyss
  • The growth of the legend
  • The list in the sock
  • The ecstasy of gold
  • The end of the affair
  • Messi and the Messiah
  • Distrust and short-termism
  • Home discomforts
  • The little witch, the Pope, and the gleeful chicken
  • The ongoing drought
  • The eternal laurels.

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