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Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever

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The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer

Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stéfano: in each and every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Possibly it is because the rustic lives and breathes the sport, its theories, and its myths. Argentina’s wealthy, volatile history—by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic—is mirrored within the style and swagger of its national and club sides. In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the rustic, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol, the fusion of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats.

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