Soccer Madness: Brazil's Passion for the World's Most Popular Sport - Softcover

Janet Lever

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881338435 ISBN 13: 9780881338430

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Includes 2009 Preface. Lever's interest in Brazilian soccer and her friendship with Pel led to this thoughtful, well-written account of Brazilians' madness for spectator sports. Drawing on interviews with soccer club directors, coaches, players, officials, sportswriters, fan club leaders, and 200 fans, Lever gives readers a fascinating study of people, culture, and politics. She reaches beyond soccer in Brazil to analyze both the appeal and the cultural achievement of spectator sports in all modern societies. Sports, she finds, provide an arena for dramatizing conflicting loyalties while emphasizing the shared interests that make us all alike.

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Review:

"Janet Lever has given us a first-rate book." -- Charles H. Page, Contemporary Sociology

"Lever has given the reader a small book as well written as it is thoughtful; the role of sport in human society is deserving of more study, and this account is a happy example painted in the bright colors and sharp contrasts of Brazilian life." -- Philip Morrison, Scientific American

"Soccer Madness . . . is a fascinating study of people, culture, and politics-- with its ultimate insight being about us, tenants of the Sports Age. Soccer is coming . . . and fans, sports writers, and those who would be in the know about modern times ignore this book at their risk." --Rick Telander, Sports Illustrated

About this edition

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0881338435
• ISBN 13: 9780881338430
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200