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Dark Goals: How History's Worst Tyrants Have Used and Abused the Game of Soccer
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ISBN10: 1989555845
ISBN13: 9781989555842
Publisher: Sutherland House
Published: Nov 8 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781989555842
Publisher: Sutherland House
Published: Nov 8 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Evita and Juan Peron, Augusto Pinochet, and Pablo Escobar
Soccer has been the world's most popular sport for the last century and an irresistible game for political and social leaders seeking shortcuts to the hearts of their people. Some of the prime movers of the twentieth-century, including Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Evita and Juan Perón, Augusto Pinochet, and the drug lord Pablo Escobar, have found in soccer a magnificent partner for enflaming patriotism, manipulating the masses, prolonging their stays on the throne, justifying aberrant acts, or simply recreating the old Roman bread and circuses (in many cases without the bread). They have tried to turn the beautiful game into something useful. Sometimes it worked, momentarily, but as renowned sports journalist Luciano Wernicke writes in this fascinating and original book, the game and its glories have survived them all.
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