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Powell, Robert Andrew.
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Soccer -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez.
Soccer teams -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Social life and customs.
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This love is not for...
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This love is not for cowards : salvation and soccer in Ciudad Juárez / Robert Andrew Powell.
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Powell, Robert Andrew.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Subjects
Soccer -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez.
Soccer teams -- Mexico -- Ciudad Juárez.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9781608197163 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1608197166 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
261 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Contents:
Prologue -- Introduction -- Opportunity -- Monterrey -- More than a club -- The game -- EK -- Faith -- Fear -- The devil -- Fussion -- Immigration -- Paco -- The lottery -- Amor -- Lost -- Exodus -- The dead women -- Good sports -- Chivas -- Everything must go -- Wedding -- Politics (or, about those money-laundering allegations) -- The last straw -- Exodus : Part 2 -- Acknowledgments.
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Traces a season in the Mexican border city where in spite of brutal violence its citizens are held together by a shared love for its soccer team, and addresses local drug and human trafficking issues and the city's high murder rate.
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Hawaii State Library
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