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Soccer has been the world’s most popular sport for the last century and an irresistible game for political and social leaders seeking shortcuts to the hearts of their people.
Some of the prime movers of the twentieth-century, including Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Evita and Juan Perón, Augusto Pinochet, and the drug lord Pablo Escobar, have found in soccer a magnificent partner for enflaming patriotism, manipulating the masses, prolonging their stays on the throne, justifying aberrant acts, or simply recreating the old Roman “bread and circuses” (in many cases without the bread).
They have tried to turn the beautiful game into something useful. Sometimes it worked, momentarily, but as renowned sports journalist Luciano Wernicke writes in this fascinating and original book, the game and its glories have survived them all.
Hardcover * 240 pages
ISBN #9781989555842
Author
LUCIANO WERNICKE was born in Buenos Aires Argentina; he graduated in journalism from the University of Salvador. For twenty years he taught sports journalism at Argentine University of Enterprise (UADE) and Círculo de Periodistas Deportivos (The School of the Circle of Sports Journalists). He is the author of more than twenty books about soccer published throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and The Middle East.
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