Rhys Richards

Gebundenes Buch

Blood on the Crossbar

The Dictatorship's World Cup

Beschreibung

Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of football's most controversial tournament: Argentina's 1978 World Cup. It was a tournament that took place during a brutal military dictatorship, where thousands of citizens 'disappeared', mothers protested on the streets and a national team's success was hijacked by the military.

Autor

Rhys Richards is a writer and English teacher from Pen y Graig in the Rhondda Valleys. He has been published in The Guardian and has written for These Football Times, The Football Pink and The Football History Boys, primarily focussing on football's role in Latin American history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781801501743
• ISBN-10: 1801501742
• Artikelnr.: 64037111