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El Clasico: Barcelona V Real Madrid: Football's Greatest Rivalry
by Fitzpatrick, Richard | PB | Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9781408158807
- Book Title
- Clasico: Barcelona V Real Madrid : Football's Greatest Rivalry
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Soccer, General
- Item Weight
- 6.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Barcelona and Real Madrid: two of the most powerful and popular clubs in world football, and one of the world's most bitter sporting rivalries. Going far beyond the boundaries of just sport alone, this is a rivalry at the heart of Spanish life, taking in politics and culture and splitting a country in two. El Cl sico gets to the heart of that rivalry, investigating the intrigue, the larger-than-life characters, the key flashpoints and their consequences. From civil war bloodshed to 40 years of fascism and links with General Franco, the clubs' shared history is the stuff of a Robert Harris novel and includes: murdered presidents from both clubs, player kidnappings, acts of hooliganism - and that's before you start thinking of the volatile football matches themselves. The book contains numerous interviews with key figures such as Lu s Figo and Hristo Stoichkov (two of the main hate figures from both clubs), Joan Laporta (Barcelona's most successful president and, having entered politics, Catalonian separatism's poster boy) and various ex-players, ex-managers, agents, referees, hooligans, editors, historians, sociologists, filmmakers, novelists, photographers, TV presenters and celebrity fans. The two clubs are packed with international superstar players - including the world's two best players in Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - and 10 of the starting 11 players from Spain's 2010 World Cup final victory play with either Barcelona or Real Madrid. This is a story with resonance around the sporting world, with many instantly recognisable figures to an international audience such as Jose Mourinho. But it is also a tale of a country divided by a bitter rivalry.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1408158809
ISBN-13
9781408158807
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150540456
Product Key Features
Book Title
Clasico: Barcelona V Real Madrid : Football's Greatest Rivalry
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Soccer, General
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
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For anyone who wants to understand why Barcelona v Real Madrid means so much more than a straightforward match between an unparalleled array of footballing stars, this book should become essential reading, Any fan of the game will start reading for the football, be enticed deeper by the quality of writing and research and enthralled by the depth and scope of El Clásico, Richard Fitzpatrick ... is an objective examiner of the complex political and social reasons this rivalry was born and nurtured, unearthing some surprising facts along the way ... Engrossing, Once I picked up El Clásico , I couldn't stop reading. It's unbelievably good . Absolutely fascinating, Fitzpatrick's book is invaluable for the context that it gives a match that you might have watched superficially for years, Any fan of the game will start reading for the football, be enticed deeper by the quality of writing and research and enthralled by the depth and scope of El Clsico, Carefully positioning himself as an outsider ... Fitzpatrick gives voice to a huge range of opinions and personal stories from both sides of the fence... [which] makes El Clàsico such a satisfying read, Once I picked up El Clásico , I couldn't stop reading. It's unbelievably good ... Absolutely fascinating, By taking Bara vs Madrid beyond the boundaries of sport, Fitzpatrick offers an absorbing history of the two cities' political and cultural flashpoints, and how this has matured into one of the most fiery rivalries on earth. Suberbly researched, it's a fascinating read, Carefully positioning himself as an outsider ... Fitzpatrick gives voice to a huge range of opinions and personal stories from both sides of the fence... [which] makes El Clsico such a satisfying read, Once I picked up El Clsico , I couldn't stop reading. It's unbelievably good ... Absolutely fascinating, Carefully positioning himself as an outsider . Fitzpatrick gives voice to a huge range of opinions and personal stories from both sides of the fence. [which] makes El Clàsico such a satisfying read, A fascinating and detailed attempt to get to the heart of one of the most complicated and poisonous rivalries in football, The greatest story in club football is the El Clasico opera. Richard Fitzpatrick delves deep to enhance our understanding of this intense rivalry. Power, politics and most of all the brilliance of the football are all on show in these pages, By taking Barça vs Madrid beyond the boundaries of sport, Fitzpatrick offers an absorbing history of the two cities' political and cultural flashpoints, and how this has matured into one of the most fiery rivalries on earth. Suberbly researched, it's a fascinating read
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Gv944.S65
Copyright Date
2013
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