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The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil

By Roger Kittleson
Hardcover
$95.00
By Roger Kittleson
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Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian.

Yet the practice and history of soccer a...

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HistorySportsWorld HistoryOther SportsLatin American HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous World HistorySouth American HistoryWorld History - General & MiscellaneousSoccerBrazil - History