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The Invention of the Beautiful Game - Football and the Making of Modern Brazil (Hardcover)
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The Invention of the Beautiful Game - Football and the Making of Modern Brazil (Hardcover)
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In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the
origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity
as "football" at the end of the nineteenth century to its
subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian "futebol,"
o jogo bonito (the beautiful game). Bocketti examines the sport and
its narratives, which usually depict soccer as having evolved from
a white elite pastime to an integral part of Brazil's national
identity known for its passion and creativity, and explains the
ways that the popular history of the game has obscured many of the
complexities and the continuities of the history of soccer and of
Brazil. Mining a rich trove of sources, including contemporary
sports journalism, archives of Brazilian soccer clubs, and British
ministry records, and looking in detail at soccer's effect on all
parts of Brazilian society, Bocketti shows how important the sport
is to an understanding of Brazilian nationalism and nation building
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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