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Item specifics
- Condition
- Region
- World
- Subject
- Sports & Recreation
- Type
- Anthology
- Title
- Love & Blood
- ISBN
- 9780156030984
- Book Title
- Love and Blood : at the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Soccer, Sports Psychology, Sociology of Sports
- Item Weight
- 0.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156030985
ISBN-13
9780156030984
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57037888
Product Key Features
Book Title
Love and Blood : at the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Soccer, Sports Psychology, Sociology of Sports
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
0.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-020546
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.334/668
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Introduction: Love and Blood 1 1 Winter in Germany 21 2 Why Are We Here? 31 3 It's All Going Off 67 4 Rooney Agonistes 95 5 The Big Money 116 Interlude: When Soccer Was Important 145 6 Ill Health, Heroes, and Heartbreak 157 7 Down and Dirty 179 8 The Short-Timers and the "Real" Cup 195 9 The City of Ghosts 216 10 The Aftermath 232 Acknowledgments 242 selected bibliography 245 Appendix 248 Index 253
Synopsis
Every four years the thirty-two-team, sixty-four-game World Cup captivates the planet's populace for a month. Work absenteeism skyrockets. Political campaigns grind to a halt. Fans mortgage their houses to buy tickets. And teams employ every means possible--even consulting witch doctors and astrologers--in their quest for national glory. Veteran soccer commentator Jamie Trecker traveled to Germany for FIFA World Cup 2006. Here, reported from the restaurants, trains, bars, town squares, hostels, press boxes, and brothels, is his unvarnished account of the games and parties, great plays and fistfights, gossip and tacky souvenirs that turn the largest sporting event on earth into a true world bazaar. With equal measures insight and irreverence, Trecker captures the passion, politics, controversies, and economics that make soccer a reflection of the world.
LC Classification Number
GV943.49.T74 2007
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