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The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup features original pieces by thirty-two leading writers and journalists about the thirty-two nations that have qualified for the world's greatest sporting event.
HarperCollins Perennial
June 2006
416 pages ISBN: 0061132268 Trade Size
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In addition to all the essential information any fan needs
-- the complete 2006 match schedule, results from past
tournaments, facts and figures about the nations, players,
teams, and referees -- here are essays that shine a whole
new light on soccer and the world. Former
Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge G. Castaeda invites George
W. Bush to watch a game. Novelist Robert
Coover remembers soccer in Spain after the death of General
Francisco Franco. Dave Eggers on America,
and the gym teachers who kept it free from
communism. Time magazine's
Tokyo bureau chief Jim Frederick shows how soccer is
displacing baseball in Japan. Novelist
Aleksandar Hemon proves, once and for all, that sex and
soccer do not mix. Novelist John Lanchester
describes the indescribable: the beauty of Brazilian
soccer. The New Yorker's
Cressida Leyshon on Trinidad and Tobago, 750Å|1
underdogs. Fever Pitch author Nick
Hornby on the conflicting call of club and country.
Plus an afterword by Franklin Foer on the form of
government most likely to win the World Cup.
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