Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3340981
EAN num: 9780752434148
ISBN number: 0752434144
Label: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Manufacturer: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 223
Printing Date: April 30, 2005
Publishing house: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Sale Popularity Level: 2274036
Studio: Tempus Publishing, Limited
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Product Description:
In 1894, Charles Miller arrived in Brazil with a pair of boots, a book of rules and a football. When he reached Sao Paulo, he was shocked to discover that no-one knew how to play. So he marked out a pitch, gathered twenty young men, and divided them into two teams...Today, Brazil are the greatest exponents of the beautiful game, and Charles Miller has been all but forgotten. This book resurrects his story and is a gripping narrative of one man's love of football and the clash between two very different cultures: the foxtrot versus the samba, the stiff upper lip versus swinging hips, Britain versus Brazil. Josh Lacey uncovers the history of the British in Brazil while narrating the profoundly moving story of a man who gave a country its greatest gift, but lost everything his heart, his soul and even his wife to that seductive country.
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