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Blood on the Crossbar - The Dictatorship's World Cup (Hardcover)
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Blood on the Crossbar - The Dictatorship's World Cup (Hardcover)
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List price R593
Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
You Save R109 (18%)
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Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of
the most controversial football World Cup of all time. When
Argentina both hosted and won the World Cup in 1978, just two years
after the coup d'etat that ousted Isabel Peron, it was against the
backdrop of a brutal military dictatorship in the country. Under
the leadership of General Jorge Videla, up to 30,000 citizens,
categorised as subversives, 'disappeared'. Dogged by allegations of
bribery, coercion and an historic failed drugs test, this is the
story of Argentina's maiden World Cup triumph and the controversy
that simmered behind it. This isn't exclusively a tale of
footballers and generals, and the risks they took to succeed. It's
a story of the people: Argentinean exiles, Parisian students, brave
journalists, the marching mothers of Plaza de Mayo and their
missing children - and Dutch stand-up comedians who led
international boycotts from thousands of miles away.
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