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Behind the Curtain - Football in Eastern Europe (Paperback, New Ed)
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Behind the Curtain - Football in Eastern Europe (Paperback, New Ed)
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'Epic... Wilson writes captivatingly with humour...anyone with an
interest in eastern European sport will be consulting this book for
years to come' FINANCIAL TIMES 'This fascinating and perceptive
travelogue includes a fine collection of anecdotes too colourful
for fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'A blissful book, lovingly and stylishly
written' DAILY TELEGRAPH From the war-ravaged streets of Sarajevo,
where turning up for training involved dodging snipers' bullets, to
the crumbling splendour of Budapest's Bozsik Stadium, where the
likes of Puskas and Kocsis masterminded the fall of England, the
landscape of Eastern Europe has changed immeasurably since the fall
of communism. Jonathan Wilson has travelled extensively behind the
old Iron Curtain, viewing life beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall
through the lens of football. Where once the state-controlled teams
of the Eastern bloc passed their way with crisp efficiency - a sort
of communist version of total football - to considerable success on
the European and international stages, today the beautiful game in
the East has been opened up to the free market, and throughout the
region a sense of chaos pervades. The threat of totalitarian
interference no longer remains; but in its place mafia control is
generally accompanied with a crippling lack of funds. In BEHIND THE
CURTAIN Jonathan Wilson goes in search of the spirit of Hungary's
'Golden Squad' of the early fifties, charts the disintegration of
the footballing superpower that was the former Yugoslavia, follows
a sorry tale of corruption, mismanagement and Armenian cognac
through the Caucasuses, reopens the case of Russia's greatest
footballer, Eduard Streltsov, and talks to Jan Tomaszewski about an
autumn night at Wembley in 1973...
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