Invention of the Beautiful Game
Subtitle: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813062556
Subjects: Soccer, history; Brazil, social life and customs
Description: "In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as 'foot-ball' at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian 'futebol, ' o jogo bonito (the beautiful game), in the twentieth century and beyond"--Provided by publisher.