The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil - Gregg Bocketti - Books - University Press of Florida - 9780813062556 - June 7, 2016
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Gregg Bocketti
The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil

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In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as “football” at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian “futebol”, o jogo bonito (the beautiful game).

320 pages, 20 black & white photographs

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 7, 2016
ISBN13 9780813062556
Publishers University Press of Florida
Pages 320
Dimensions 155 × 233 × 22 mm   ·   616 g
Language English  

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