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Villoro, Juan, 1956- author.
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Soccer.
Soccer -- History.
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God is round : tackl...
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God is round : tackling the giants, villains, triumphs, and scandals of the world's favorite game / Juan Villoro ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
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Villoro, Juan, 1956- author.
Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, c2016.
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Soccer.
Soccer -- History.
ISBN:
9781632060587 (pbk.) :
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255 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Onetti the ticket vendor -- Winter champion: fandom in the first person -- The final passion -- When a goal is more than a goal -- The football and the head -- The peculiarity of being two-legged -- The deaths of others -- Magic number 10 -- Diego Armando Maradona: life, death, resurrection, and a little more besides -- Ronaldo: the way of all flesh -- A diatribe against Cristiano Ronaldo -- Lionel Messi: childhood prefigurations -- Blood on the terraces: violence in the business of FIFA.
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What was the greatest goal of all time? Why do the Hungarians have a more philosophical sense of defeat than the Mexicans? Do the dead play soccer? On a planet where FIFA has more members than the United Nations, Juan Villoro's examination of soccer and its 3.5 billion-person fandom has stakes beyond those of such playful questions. Soccer is more than just a game; it is a catalyst for panglobal unity and even, Villoro suggests, the "recovery of childhood."
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Hawaii State Library
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796.334 Vi
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Adult Nonfiction
796.334 Vi
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