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(More customer reviews)This book is worth reading, mostly because there simply aren't many books about Brazilian football, & you have to know about Brazil if you really want to know about football.
Anyway, as a book about sociology of football, it is not bad. At least, there was quite a large amount of research and it showed. It just feels a bit awkward, because, despite the many years the author spent in Brazil, she wasn't born in a country which likes football. So, sometimes what she wrote sounds a bit funny.
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Lever's interest in Brazilian soccer and her friendshipwith Pel led to this thoughtful, well-written account ofBrazilians' madness for spectator sports. Drawing on interviews withsoccer club directors, coaches, players, officials, sportswriters, fanclub leaders, and 200 fans, Lever gives readers a fascinating study ofpeople, culture, and politics. She reaches beyond soccer in Brazil toanalyze both the appeal and the cultural achievement of spectatorsports in all modern societies. Sports, she finds, provide an arenafor dramatizing conflicting loyalties while emphasizing the sharedinterests that make us all alike.
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