This English game - A second birth - The global stage - Argentinidad - The coming of money - The Rioplatense supremacy - Part two: The golden age, 1930-1958. Prologue: Utopias and their discontents, 1535-2016 - Part one: The birth of a nation, 1863-1930. Includes bibliographical references and index Here, he chronicles the evolution of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the country into isolation, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol, the fusing of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats in Maradona and Messi against a backdrop of economic turbulence Like his apartment, Angels with Dirty Faces lies at the intersection of politics, literature, and sport. Jonathan Wilson lived in Buenos Aires, in an apartment between La Recoleta Cemetery-where the country's leading poets and politicians are buried-and the Huracán stadium. A nation obsessed with soccer, Argentina lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. The country's rich, volatile history is by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic. Argentina has produced Alfredo Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi-some of the greatest soccer players of all time.
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