A Season with Verona: A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character, And... Goals! Tapa blanda - 2012 - 1st Edición

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Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as "soccer") a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer club, Hellas Verona, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities, and to get a fresh take on the conundrum that is national character. From Udine to Catania, from the San Siro to the Olimpico, traveling with the raucous and unruly Verona fans—whose conduct is a cross between that of asylum inmates and the Keystone Kops—Tim Parks offers his highly personal account of one man's relationship with a country, its people, and its national sport. The clubs are struggling, as always, to keep their heads above water in Series A. The fans, as always, are accused of vulgarity, racism, and violence. It's an election year and politics encroaches. The police are ambiguous, the… Leer más

Arcade, 2012-11-13. 1. paperback. Used: Good.

Arcade, 2012-11-13. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Arcade Pub, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 447 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.25 inches.

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