Passion of the People?: Football in Latin America UPDATE:Default Title Critical both of incoherent government

Critical both of incoherent government policies and of the failures of minority-group advocacy

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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and accompanied by more than a hundred photographs

Passion of the People?: Football in Latin America UPDATE:Default Title Critical both of incoherent governmentAuthor Contributor(s): Mason, Tony Publisher: Verso Date: 5 17 1995 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Brazils victory in the 1994 World Cup is the latest chapter in an extensive history of the worlds most popular game in South America. In this engaging account, Tony Mason reviews the place of football in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Mason opens with soccers rise at the turn of the century amid the exploding urbanization of Buenos Aires, Montevideo,