The invention of the beautiful game : football and the making of modern Brazil
Gregg Bocketti (Author)
"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
eBook, English, 2016
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2016