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Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a national style in Brazil as it tells the story of the men and women who, despite their many differences, together created 'the beautiful game.' - Roger Kittleson, author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil Compellingly shows how each segment of Brazilian society-players, club owners, and spectators, especially the usually neglected female fans-was touched by the sport that it eventually came to proudly embrace as its own. - Amy Chazkel, coeditor of The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics Highlights the narrative power of soccer, showing how Brazilians-from elite sportsmen and nationalist intellectuals to common men and women-infused the sport with both personal and national importance. - Joshua Nadel, author of Futbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America Bocketti proposes that nationalist soccer history, emphasizing democratization and Brazilianization of the game, ignores early participation of women, continuing dominance of middle-class and wealthy club directors and the effects of exporting players to European teams. - Choice Innovative for soccer history because of its detailed reconstruction of the sport's formation in Brazil. The study is immersed in social facts, mediated by practices, institutions, entities, beliefs, and routines, among other corporate dimensions, that contribute to uncovering reality and deconstructing the myth that soccer is authentically interclass and multiracial. - Hispanic American Historical Review A nuanced and insightful analysis of the contending narratives about the emergence and expansion of football in Brazil, and of how they have produced the powerful nationalist narrative of the futebol nation. - H-Net Reviews

"Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a national style in Brazil as it tells the story of the men and women who, despite their many differences, together created 'the beautiful game.'"""" - Roger Kittleson, author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil   """"Compellingly shows how each segment of Brazilian society—players, club owners, and spectators, especially the usually neglected female fans—was touched by the sport that it eventually came to proudly embrace as its own."""" - Amy Chazkel, coeditor of The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics   """"Highlights the narrative power of soccer, showing how Brazilians—from elite sportsmen and nationalist intellectuals to common men and women—infused the sport with both personal and national importance."""" - Joshua Nadel, author of Fútbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America   """"Bocketti proposes that nationalist soccer history, emphasizing democratization and Brazilianization"""" of the game, ignores early participation of women, continuing dominance of middle-class and wealthy club directors and the effects of exporting players to European teams."""" - Choice """"Innovative for soccer history because of its detailed reconstruction of the sport's formation in Brazil. The study is immersed in social facts, mediated by practices, institutions, entities, beliefs, and routines, among other corporate dimensions, that contribute to uncovering reality and deconstructing the myth that soccer is authentically interclass and multiracial."""" - Hispanic American Historical Review """"A nuanced and insightful analysis of the contending narratives about the emergence and expansion of football in Brazil, and of how they have produced the powerful nationalist narrative of the futebol nation."""" - H-Net Reviews"

Advances the compelling notion that a close look at the history of Brazil's most celebrated, popular, and influential sport can teach us much about the country's complicated history. --The Americas Bocketti proposes that nationalist soccer history, emphasizing democratization and Brazilianization of the game, ignores early participation of women, continuing dominance of middle-class and wealthy club directors and the effects of exporting players to European teams. --Choice Advances the compelling notion that a close look at the history of Brazil's most celebrated, popular, and influential sport can teach us much about the country's complicated history. --The Americas A nuanced and insightful analysis of the contending narratives about the emergence and expansion of football in Brazil, and of how they have produced the powerful nationalist narrative of the futebol nation. --H-Net Bocketti proposes that nationalist soccer history, emphasizing democratization and 'Brazilianization' of the game, ignores early participation of women, continuing dominance of middle-class and wealthy club directors and the effects of exporting players to European teams. . . . Highly recommended. --Choice Innovative for soccer history because of its detailed reconstruction of the sport's formation in Brazil. The study is immersed in social facts, mediated by practices, institutions, entities, beliefs, and routines, among other corporate dimensions, that contribute to uncovering reality and deconstructing the myth that soccer is authentically interclass and multiracial. --Hispanic American Historical Review A major contribution to the scholarship on football (soccer) and its centrality in Latin American society and culture. . . . Provides a fascinating and controversial look into how 'the beautiful game' of football became an integral part of Brazilian national identity. --Journal of Sport History A richly told story of football's formative decades in Brazil's largest cities. --Luso-Brazilian Review A nuanced and insightful analysis of the contending narratives about the emergence and expansion of football in Brazil, and of how they have produced the powerful nationalist narrative of the futebol nation. --H-Net Reviews Innovative for soccer history because of its detailed reconstruction of the sport's formation in Brazil. The study is immersed in social facts, mediated by practices, institutions, entities, beliefs, and routines, among other corporate dimensions, that contribute to uncovering reality and deconstructing the myth that soccer is authentically interclass and multiracial. --Hispanic American Historical Review

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Gregg Bocketti is associate professor of history at Transylvania University.

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