White Stormthe Story Of Real Madrid

Author : Phil Ball
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781840186345
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Storm written by Phil Ball and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barcelona and Manchester United may wish to dispute the observation, but Real Madrid are the world's greatest football club. Setting emotion and preferences aside, the facts speak for themselves. The spirit of the club resides in its trophy room, where the gold and silver of a 100 years of football's conquistadores rubbing the world's noses into the dirt wink and shimmer in the tasteful lighting. They include 28 League titles, 8 European Cups, 12 Spanish Cups, 2 UEFA Cups, 2 World Club Championship titles - not to mention this season's beguiling promise of winning both the League and Champion's League. To win this in their centenary year would dispel any lingering doubts as to the hierarchy of the gods, and would set the club up nicely for the century ahead. The story of Real Madrid's first 100 years is, however, much more than the mere sum of its achievements. There have been legends at every step. And behind the shine of the trophies, there is the darker side of the club's association with fascism - its role as the pure white ambassador to Franco's jackbooted vision of a centralised Spain. But more than anything else, Real Madrid still represent an idea, almost 30 years after Franco's death - the idea of 'Madridismo'.

Author : Phil Ball
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781840187632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Storm written by Phil Ball and published by Mainstream Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Storm charts the history of Real Madrid from its foundations to the golden period of Di Stefano and Puskas, from the hippy years to the latest embodiment of Madridismo - Raul, ending with an analysis of the arrival of David Beckham and what it might mean for the future of the club.

Author : Christos Kassimeris
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119600
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Football in Black and White written by Christos Kassimeris and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Football in Black and White challenges the issue of racism in European football, identifies the causes of the problem and seeks its remedy.

Author : Phil Ball
Publisher : WSC Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780954013462
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morbo written by Phil Ball and published by WSC Books Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ayre
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184876457X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football Aims for the Stars written by Ayre and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of five years of research, this fascinating book reveals a side of football not explored before and explains why football coaches use astrology to gain a competitive edge. The result of 5 years of research, Football aims for the Stars shows how the constellations can affect planet football; find out why leading continental coaches believe they gain a competitive advantage by using astrology; explore the 12 paths to football success; understand what makes a telepathic partnership and, with examples including England 1966, Liverpool 1979, Manchester United 2007, and Barcelona 2009, see how a 'well balanced' team is built. This pioneering book will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in fulfilling their potential either as a player or coach. It will also provide fascinating insights for fans wishing to find out what they have in common with their heroes.

Author : Sid Lowe
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568584512
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Loathing in La Liga written by Sid Lowe and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid. It's Messi vs. Ronaldo, Guardiola vs. Mourinho, the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs. Franco's fascists, plus majestic goals and mesmerizing skills. It's the best two teams on the planet going head-to-head. It's more than a game. It's a war. It's El Cláco. Only, it's not quite that simple. Spanish soccer expert and historian Sid Lowe covers 100 years of rivalry, athletic beauty, and excellence. Fear and Loathing in La Liga is a nuanced, revisionist, and brilliantly informed history that goes beyond sport. Lowe weaves together this story of the rivalry with the history and culture of Spain, emphasizing that it is "never about just the soccer." With exclusive testimonies and astonishing anecdotes, he takes us inside this epic battle, including the wounds left by the Civil War, Madrid's golden age in the fifties when they won five European cups, Johan Cruyff's Barcelona Dream Team, the doomed Galáico experiment, and LuíFigo's "betrayal." By exploring the history, politics, culture, economics, and language -- while never forgetting the drama on the field -- Lowe demonstrates the relationship between these two soccer giants and reveals the true story behind their explosive rivalry.

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594482960
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ball is Round written by David Goldblatt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.

Author : Andrew McFarland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000801349
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regeneration through Sport written by Andrew McFarland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how and why sport in general, and football in particular, entered the country and developed successfully between 1890 and the 1920s, while placing that growth within the context of Spain’s larger historical experience. The introduction of sport in the late 19th century permanently changed the day-to-day lives of thousands of Spaniards. Initially, the country’s growing urban middle-classes embraced the new activity as they built community identities and were introduced to it through economic and educational connections to foreigners. To justify this, these proponents argued that the adoption of physical education and sport would physically regenerate the nation. In response, well-rounded sporting communities grew, developed medical arguments, and even debated the activity’s appropriateness for different groups like women. As sport spread, it produced the first football clubs around the turn of the century. Subsequently, in the 1910s and early 1920s, football established the structural institutions, like stadiums, stars, regulatory bodies, and a press, that enabled its rapid expansion as a mass consumer activity in the late 1920s. Regeneration through Sport looks at how this process embedded the sport within the national culture and established itself as a politically neutral activity before the Spanish Second Republic, allowing it to become almost ubiquitous today. This book will appeal to researchers, students and scholars alike who are interested in the history of sport, Spain, and European history.

Author : David Hassan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351567705
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Race in Association Football written by David Hassan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between association football, race and ethnicity has received increasing levels of attention from academics and commentators throughout the world over recent years. As their national professional leagues reflect the multicultural nature of most global developed societies so the focus of sports scholars and others have been drawn to this field of enquiry and this has produced some impressive works. These have included rich examinations of such issues at the level of the nation-state and the aim of this collection is to considerably enhance this dedicated strand of academic research. Drawing upon case studies from Europe, Africa and the USA, this book offers readers an exceptional level of coverage as it scrutinises issues of race and ethnicity in a number of novel settings worldwide. It also brings together many of the leading researchers in this field and thereby offers the reader a single, dedicated reference point for much of the contemporary research work taking place throughout the world at this time. This bookw as published a sa special issue of Soccer and Society.

Author : Florentin Smarandache, Stefan Vladutescu, Alina Tenescu
Publisher : Infinite Study
ISBN 13 : 6061142269
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Communication Difficulties written by Florentin Smarandache, Stefan Vladutescu, Alina Tenescu and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our thesis is that communication has several sources. Some may be considered as main sources or constitutive sources from which communication springs, and others may be considered as secondary or complementary sources of communication. We can thus acknowledge eight main sources of communication: rhetoric, persuasion, psychology, sociology, anthropology, semiotics, linguistics and political science. Rhetoric is the first and oldest discipline which studied certain communication phenomena; rhetoric has outlined a proto-object of communication. Sociology is the most powerful source of communication methodology: sociology has supplied most of the theories and methods that have led to the discipline of communication growing autonomously. We assert that secondary sources of communication are: philosophy, ethics, pragmatics, mathematics, cybernetics and ecology. [Florentin Smarandache & Ştefan Vlăduţescu] *** The book has 15 chapters written by the following authors and co-authors from USA, England, China, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Romania: Florentin Smarandache, Ştefan Vlăduţescu, Jim O’Brien, Svetislav Paunovic, Mariana Man, Zhaoxun Song, Dandan Shan, Maria Nowicka-Skowron, Sorin Mihai Radu, Janusz Grabara, Ioan Cosmescu, Adrian Nicolescu, Krasimira Dimitrova, Alina Țenescu, Sebastian Kot, Beata Ślusarczyk, Maria Măcriș, Iwona Grabara, Piotr Pachura, Mircea Bunaciu, Jozef Novak-Marcincin, Mircea Duică, Odette Arhip, Vlad Roșca, and Vladimir-Aurelian Enăchescu.