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'The definitive work on Diego Maradona' The 42 'One of football's
greatest stories ... this is the best football book in ages' Goal
'A modern footballing classic' FHM _________________________ Anyone
doubting that Diego Maradona was more than just a football player
had only to witness the outpourings after his death on November
25th 2020. During his tempestuous life and career, he played for
top clubs in South America and Europe, notably Napoli where he
became an adored hero and adopted son, and grew to be a legend in
his homeland of Argentina after leading them to victory in the 1986
World Cup. Having gained access to his inner circle, Jimmy Burns
traces Maradona's life from the slums of Buenos Aires, where he was
born, through his great years of triumph, to the United States from
where, in 1994, he was ignobly expelled after undergoing a positive
drugs test. He also tells of his failed attempt to bring further
glory to Argentina as coach in the 2010 World Cup, and ultimately,
his tragic decline and recent death. Widely regarded as the best
and most revealing account of the highs, lows, genius and flaws of
arguably the greatest footballer of all time, this biography
inspired Asif Kapadia's award-winning 2019 film Diego Maradona.
_________________________ 'Excellent and well-researched' Sunday
Times 'I finished it thinking how great it would be to make
something on Diego Maradona one day' Asif Kapadia, director of
Diego Maradona
A Financial Times Sports book of the Year 2018 pick Who's better:
Ronaldo or Messi? Ask any football fan and they'll have an opinion.
For the best part of the last decade football has seen a personal
rivalry unlike any seen before. Cristiano and Leo. This is their
definitive story, from children kicking a ball halfway around the
world from each other to their era-defining battle to be number
one. One the preening adonis, a precision physical machine who
blows teams away with his pace and power. The other a shuffling
genius, able to do things with a football that seem other-worldly.
Their differences seem to tap into something fundamental about
football and indeed life. Between them they have scored over a
thousand goals, won the Ballon d'Or nine times and redefined modern
football. For the past eight seasons they have shared the accolade
of best footballer in the world and arguments rage over which one
deserves the title of greatest player of all time. Cristiano and
Leo by Spanish and South American football expert and journalist
Jimmy Burns is the essential book to understand the defining
players of a generation. 'Burns is incapable of writing a boring
sentence.' - Irish Times
'A required book for anyone who wishes to understand the Argentine
situation before and after the Falklands War' GRAHAM GREENE Jimmy
Burns was the only full-time British foreign correspondent to
remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War. In The Land that
Lost Its Heroes, he gives a detailed account of the military
planning of the invasion, exposing not only the hidden motives and
nature of Argentina's military regime, but also the pitifully
inadequate reactions of both British diplomacy and intelligence.
Burns exposes the duplicity of other Western nations and the
international banking community and gives a vivid first-hand
account of the end of the regime, the debt crisis and the return to
democracy under Raul Alfonsin.
A Financial Times Sports Books of the Year 2018
Cristiano and Leo is the fascinating account of the lives and rivalry
between two of the best footballers to ever play the game, Ronaldo and
Messi by Jimmy Burns, the bestselling author of Maradona: The Hand of
God.
The rivalry between Ronaldo and Messi has defined football to a
generation of fans – everyone has an opinion on who is the greatest.
Do you prefer Ronaldo whose work ethic and physique have been honed for
one purpose – scoring goals. Or Messi, whose superhuman natural talent
means he can do the seemingly impossible with a football.
Between them they have scored over 1300 goals, won the Ballon d’Or ten
times, and taken the beautiful game to even greater heights. But
statistics alone cannot do justice to their skill, athleticism and
dedication to stay at the top for so long of one of the most
competitive sports in the world.
Cristiano and Leo tells their definitive story, from children kicking a
ball halfway around the world from each other to facing each other in
the epic clash El Clįsico, between Real Madrid and Barcelona. This is
the essential book to understand one the most compelling rivalries in
sporting history.
From the moment Pope Francis stepped on to the balcony of St
Peter's Basilica for the first time, a global audience sensed that
not only the Catholic Church but the world at large could be
entering a new spiritual, political and social age. In the days
following Pope Francis' election, there would be further early
signs of the simplicity worthy of the first apostles and the leader
that inspired them. Not since John XIII appeared on the scene half
a century earlier had a new Pope opened the windows of the Church
in such a way as to let in some much needed fresh air.
Nevertheless, for the excitement generated by the first Latin
American Pope and a man who claimed to want to put the poor back at
the centre of the Church's social teaching, people could still only
guess where it might be all be leading. Francis: Pope of Good
Promise is neither an instant media job, nor a hagiography based on
authorised interviews, but the product of diligent investigation
across a wide range of official and independent sources - a
measured, objective portrait of a man who, in circumstances that he
neither sought nor foresaw, found himself handed the highest office
at a time of crisis not just for the Church but for long
established institutions worldwide from banks to political parties.
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