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Smith, Rory

 
9781471151569: Mister: The Men Who Taught The World How To Beat England At Their Own Game
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ISBN 10 : 1471151565 ISBN 13 : 9781471151569
Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.
SUNDAY TIMES SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR.

From its late-Victorian flowering in the mill towns of the northwest of England, football spread around the world with great speed. It was helped on its way by a series of missionaries who showed the rest of the planet the simple joys of the game. Even now, in many countries, the colloquial word for a football manager is not 'coach' or 'boss' but 'mister', as that is how the early teachers were known, because they had come from the home of the sport to help it develop in new territories.
     
In Rory Smith's stunning new book Mister, he looks at the stories of these pioneers of the game, men who left this country to take football across the globe. Sometimes, they had been spurned in their own land, as coaching was often frowned upon in England in those days, when players were starved of the ball during the week to make them hungry for it on matchday. So it was that the inspirations behind the 'Mighty Magyars' of the 1950s, the Dutch of the 1970s or top clubs such as Barcelona came from these shores.
     
England, without realising it, fired the very revolution that would remove its crown, changing football's history, thanks to a handful of men who sowed the seeds of the inversion of football's natural order. This is the story of the men who taught the world to play and shaped its destiny. This is the story of the Misters.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rory Smith joined The Times as one of its leading football writers in 2012, having previously written for the Daily Telegraph, and he now writes for the New York Times. He worked with Rafa Benitez on Champions League Dreams, but this is his first book under his own name.

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Éditeur
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1471151565
ISBN 13 
9781471151569
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
Simon & Schuster
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