Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
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Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina
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p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. Good book on Argentinean football, includes a good mix of club and international levels and shows the people of Argentina's obsession with the beautiful game. His two goals against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter final in Mexico City showed both sides of the national footballing character - to that extent he was a worthy successor to the Angels With Dirty Faces.
It is the history of the founding of a country that was followed by the introduction of its footballing soul not long after. p. xii: "From the very beginning, Argentina, the land of silver, was a myth, an ideal to which the reality count not possibly conform. En esta Copa del Mundo de Catar 2022 en el que el fútbol se ha homogeneizado hasta el grado en el que las distinciones tácticas son prácticamente inexistentes y en una ola de anti-argentinismo los aficionados pretenden que se tiene que reaccionar con la compostura de los equipos ingleses del Siglo XIX, es fresco ver a una selección albiceleste que se destaque por sus individualidades, por su picardía y por su singular sentido de emoción.Though I’m sure there is nothing sinister in that regard and he is simply reflecting a northern European impression of the Latin look and demeanour which has been the subject of certain stereotype. I did notice Wilson’s tendency to over-describe the physical features of certain characters within the book. Wilson brings to life a time in which ‘la nuestra’ (‘our way’, a uniquely Argentinian version of the game which focuses on individual skill and self-expression) flourished and fans flocked to see a seemingly endless chain of incredible homegrown talents. p. 93: "It soon became special, though: in retrospect, the victory of the Angels with Dirty Faces in Peru was the last great flowering of la nuestra, the elaborate, free-flowing attacking style of play that Argentinian soccer came to see as characteristic of its golden age.
And perhaps that’s Argentina in a nutshell, a wonderful mix of chaos, highs and lows, perfectly reflected in its football.Angels with Dirty Faces is wonderfully segmented into bite-sized chapters, meaning it’s both snackable and an irresistible page-turner. Yet the book’s subtitle, ‘The Footballing History of Argentina’, reveals that the true scope of the book is even greater: Wilson is attempting to tell, at least to some degree, the history of Argentina through the lens of football. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics was Football Book of the Year in 2009 and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. The beautiful game conjures up moments of delicious individual effort, even though those are always rare and brief in their presence – what eventually sustains is the team.
Angels with Dirty Faces is a superbly written, shocking, sensuous, sometimes sadistic and even scandalous binding of biographies struggling with the question: What does redemption actually mean? The book spends a fair but of time on the decline and fall of Diego, but rather less on the other great Argentinian genius, Lionel Messi. Football was first imported to Argentina, as elsewhere, by British immigrants, and Wilson gives prominence to Glaswegian schoolteacher Alexander Watson Hutton in organising structured games which led to the formation of a league in 1891 (making it the oldest football league outside Britain). Overall, though, Angels with Dirty Faces is a hugely enjoyable read – I raced through the 523 pages – and its broad scope never comes at the expense of depth.If you’re interested in history, the roots of the game and getting under the skin of one of the world’s foremost footballing nations then I’d have a go at this. At the turn of the twentieth century, Argentina was on course to become one of the wealthiest countries on earth. Using three disparate yet interconnected stories, including her own, Walidah Imarisha gives us an unvarnished take on prison abolition.
It is within this chaos that multiple generations of talents emerge, from a population of just 25 million people.Maradona was the personification of the Pibe tradition, which was almost designed for him, the author notes - a poor boy, touched with genius, but fatally flawed. What’s great is that, the physical books ends in 2016, this one goes all the way to to 2021 with material I’d never heard before. Na koniec chciałbym przestrzec osoby, które chcą przeczytać książkę, ale nic a nic nie interesują się kopaną - pomimo ciekawej struktury i lekkiego pióra Jonathana Wilsona, Aniołowie o brudnych twarzach, to nadal książka o piłce nożnej i piłkarzach i jeśli interesujecie się Argentyną jako taką, to radziłbym sięgnąć po jakieś bardziej ogólne opracowanie, natomiast fani sportu po piłkarską historię mogą sięgnąć bez żadnych obaw. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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