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Calcio
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Categorii: Diverse

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2007

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Tip copertă: Paperback

Nr Pag: 640

ISBN: 9780007175758

Dimensiuni: l: 15cm | H: 23cm | 4cm | 434g

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Calcio
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The first history of Italian football to be written in English, ‘Calcio’ is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world.

‘Calcio’ tells the story of Italian football from its origins in the 1890’s to the present day. It takes us through a history of great players and teams, of style, passion and success, but also of violence, cynicism, catenaccio tactics and corruption.

We meet the personalities that have shaped this history – from the Italian heroes to the foreigners that failed, the model professionals to the mavericks. ‘Calcio’ evokes the triumphs (the 1982 World Cup victory) and the tragedies (Meroni, the 'Italian George Best', killed by his number one fan), set against a backdrop of paranoia and intrigue, in a country where the referee is seen as corrupt until proven otherwise.

Calcio is no longer a game. It is sometimes difficult to define it as a sport. It is certainly big business and a fanatical civic religion. There is no moral code here. Winners are always right, losers always wrong. This history of Italian football reveals all about the richest and toughest league in the world.


John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the Department of Italian, University of Bristol. In 2019 he was awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history. His book L'Italie e le sue storie. 1945-2019 was awarded the Premio FiuggiStoria Europa book prize in 2019. He is an internationally-recognised authority on Italian history and contemporary culture and has written best-selling books on Italian football, cycling, divided memory, the history of post-war Milan, the history of post-war Italy and the radical Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia. All of these books have appeared in Italian and English. His book on Italian cycling was adjudged by the Daily Telegraph to be one of the 50th greatest sports books of all time in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was co-editor of the journal Modern Italy from 2010-2014 (with Phil Cooke). He is currently working on a history of Italian fascism for Bloomsbury (UK) and Laterza (Italy). He has written for The Guardian, The TLS, the LRB and many other publications, and often comments on Italian politics and history on national radio and television.

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