Angels with dirty faces: how argentinian soccer defined a nation and changed the game forever - jonathan wilson

The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent.

Perhaps its because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths.

Argentinas rich, volatile history--by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic--is mirrored in the style and swagger of its national and club sides.

In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Per n led the country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-f tbol, the fusion of beauty and efficacy under C sar Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats.

Praise for Inverting the Pyramid Here, for the first time in decades, is a top-notch soccer book on how soccer is actually played on the field.

--Simon Kuper An outstanding work.

The soccer book of the decade.

--Sunday Business Post The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stfano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent.

Perhaps its because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths.

Argentinas rich, volatile history -- by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic -- is mirrored in the style and swagger of its national and club sides.

In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Per 3ed the country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-f , the fusion of beauty and efficacy under Csar Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats.

Praise for Inverting the Pyramid Here, for the first time in decades, is a top-notch soccer book on how soccer is actually played on the field.

-- Simon Kuper An outstanding work.

The soccer book of the decade.

-- Sunday Business Post The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stfano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent.

Perhaps its because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths.

Argentinas rich, volatile history -- by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic -.