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by: Philip Ball  List Price: $20.65 Price: $9.37 You Save: $11.28 (55%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN: 9780954013462 ISBN: 0954013468 Label: WSC Books Limited Manufacturer: WSC Books Limited Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: December 12, 2003 Publisher: WSC Books Limited Studio: WSC Books Limited Related Items:
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 Rating: - An Excellent Cultural StudyAmerican audiences exposed to the EPL, La Liga or any other league for that matter, often times only get to see 2 dimensions of the game. First, the emphasis on the bigger team names, and second, the game itself. What they often fail to see is the intracacy of the game behind the game - that is, the cultural elements that make soccer overseas so unique, so passionate, and often times, so beyond the grasp of comprehension to the audience that is watching on Fox Soccer Channel. In Morbo, ... Read More Rating: - History of SpainThis is a remarkable book. Whereas it took Jimmy Burns of the Financial Times a whole book to wax about Barcelona, Phil Ball does it beautifully in a few pages. Morbo is a superb exploration of Spanish politics, Spanish geography, and the one thing that unites all of Spain-football. Spain is, it seems, a poor advertisement for the sort of national unity that dominated 19th. century Europe-Germany, Scotland, and Italy and later, India and China. Phil Ball's book exhibits a child-like happiness when ... Read More Rating: - Spanish culture revealed through sportMorbo is fantastic. Phil Ball, as he always seems to do in his regular columns on Spanish football, manages to capture the essence of Spanish society through the culture of the game. This is a story not only of the greats - di Stefano, Barcelona, Real Madrid, etc - but of the cab driving Betis supporter of Seville and the forgotten cities and clubs of Huelva and Irun. For the American reader possessing a passion for the game with sources unknown, this opens up a culture for further exploration. It ... Read More 
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