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La Roja: How Soccer Conquered Spain And How Spanish Soccer Conquered The World (2012)

by Jimmy Burns(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Nation Books

review 1: It was interesting, and there are plenty of good stories here, but I sometimes found the style distractingly uneven. For example, several times I had to re-read a passage in order to parse the meaning, and the author occasionally interrupted the third-person narrative with first-person anecdotes. Those issues aside, if you're interested in the history of soccer in Spain through the World Cup win in 2010, this book has you covered.
review 2: If you don't know anything about Spanish soccer prepare to be bombarded with the names of many Spaniards and Englishmen you will soon forget. This is a very comprehensive look at the growth of soccer in Spain, at times enthralling and at other times sleep inducing. I wish there were more pictures of some of the characters de... morescribed in this book and by characters I really mean characters. The coach who brought two national rivals together for the World Cup win in 2010, Vincente Del Bosque, lots of kudos to him but no picture. I wanted to read more about the cultural and political aspects of the game vis a vis Franco and that is there too. Burns is a good observer and chronicler of the game as we go from the English mining companies who brought it to Spain through the Civil War and ultimately a democratic Spain. This is a book that doesn't stimulate one to race through it but to attack it slowly. less

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