Title The invention of the beautiful game : football and the making of modern Brazil / Gregg Bocketti.

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Summary	"In this cross-cutting cultural history, Gregg Bocketti traces the origins of soccer in Brazil from its elitist, Eurocentric identity as 'foot-ball' at the end of the nineteenth century to its subsequent mythologization as the specifically Brazilian 'futebol, ' o jogo bonito (the beautiful game), in the twentieth century and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Playing for the nation : the ideology of Brazilian sports -- Building and rebuilding the society of football -- Students and masters : national identity and international football -- Respectability, emotion, and gender in Brazilian spectatorship -- The invention of the beautiful game -- Epilogue: The life of the beautiful game.
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Subject	Soccer -- Brazil -- History.
	Soccer.
	Brazil.
	History.
	Soccer players -- Brazil -- History.
	Soccer players.
	Brazil -- Social life and customs.
	Manners and customs.
	Soccer -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- History.
	Soccer -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Bocketti, Gregg. Invention of the beautiful game. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 9780813062556 (DLC) 2015044262 (OCoLC)914290360
ISBN	9780813055794 electronic book
	0813055792 electronic book
	9780813062556
	0813062551