No nation has aligned itself so closely with football. For over a century, its people, its politicians and its poets have found in the game the finest expression of the nation’s collective potential, its ethnic diversity and its rich cultures of dance and music. Since 1938, when Brazil dazzled at the World Cup in France, the entire world has seen Brazilian football as exotic and otherworldly. Very few Brazilian phrases have entered the global lingua franca like О logo Bonito — the Beautiful Game. Yet there is another side to Brazil and its game, one that reflects the harsh realities of the futebol nation, one where the game’s deep connections to the country’s social structures, economic institutions and political processes are laid bare: the grinding poverty that creates such a vast pool of hungry players; its corrupt and unaccountable institutions exemplified by its football authorities; and the pervasive violence that has seeped its way both onto the field of play and into the stands. Futebol Nation’is the story of both sides of Brazilian football: its brilliance and its miseries, with the light they shine on the injustices of Brazilian life; and, just occasionally, the example it offers of a society that might do justice to Brazil’s conviviality and creativity rather than its brutality and conservatism.
Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение культуры «Российская государственная библиотека для молодёжи»
Главное здание
107061 Москва, ул. Б. Черкизовская, дом 4, корпус 1 Метро «Преображенская площадь» (выход №5) Телефон для справок: +7 499 670-80-01 E-mail: info@rgub.ru
Филиал библиотеки МИКК «Особняк В.Д. Носова»
107023 Москва, ул. Электрозаводская, 12, стр. 1 Метро «Электрозаводская» Телефоны для справок: +7 499 670-80-01 (доб. 600) E-mail: mansion@rgub.ru