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![]() ![]() Their rich, volatile history is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic.Īrgentina is a nation obsessed with football, and Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the five phases of Argentinian football: the appropriation of the British game the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Peron led the country into isolation a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-futbol the fusing of beauty and efficacy under Cesar Luis Menotti and the ludicrous (albeit underachieving) creative talent of recent times. Argentina is responsible for some of the greatest footballers on the planet. ![]() The definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramidĭiego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi. ![]()
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