Garrincha - Couverture souple

Castro, Ruy

 
9780224064323: Garrincha
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0224064320 ISBN 13 : 9780224064323
Editeur : Yellow Jersey Press, 2004

Synopsis

The World Cup Finals, Sweden 1958. Brazil vs the fearsome USSR. In the opening three minutes - 'the greatest three minutes in the history of football' - one man wrote himself into the record books alongside the game's greatest players, men like Pele, Di Stefano, Puskas and Maradona. Brazil went on to win the cup, and, in Garrincha, a star was born. Garrincha was the unlikeliest of footballers - with grotesquely deformed legs, he looked as if he could barely walk, but with a ball at his feet he had the poise of an angel. Born Manuel dos Santos in rural Brazil in 1933, 'Little Bird' or Garrincha as he came to be known, came to football by accident, discovered at the late age of nineteen by a scout for Botafogo. He played football only for the love of it, uninterested in money, and ignoring advice about tactics. And he was as wild off the pitch as he was brilliant on it - mischievous, audacious and dripping with sex appeal, over the course of his life he fathered at least thirteen children with different women. It was his affair and subsequent marriage to the singer Elza Soares that really caught the imagination of a nation - their mouth-watering combination of football and samba made

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À propos de l?auteur

Ruy Castro is the Brazilian author of several biographies and collections of quotations. His book Chega de saudade was published in US as Bossa Nova - the story of the Brazilian music that seduced the world and his passionate account of life in Rio will be published by Bloomsbury the UK next year. Castro has worked for many of Brazil's top newspapers and magazines. He was born in 1948 and lives in Rio de Janeiro.

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Éditeur
Yellow Jersey Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0224064320
ISBN 13 
9780224064323
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0224092197 ISBN 13 :  9780224092197
Editeur : Yellow Jersey Press, 2013
Couverture souple