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The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republic’s quest to create elite athletes in two global team sports, football and basketball, primarily at the youth level. While the objective of this mission was to improve performances at international competitions, such programs were quickly seized upon to help ease domestic issues and tensions. The onset of the Cold War forced countries of all sizes to rethink their relevancy. A country’s ability to exert “soft power,” or influence others through the cultural sphere, became more important. Sport was but one way through which to do so. The extent to which France harnessed the athletic domain was unprecedented among other West European nati...
My name is Mason Cyrille Elong Ewing. My mother Marie died when I was barely 4 years old. She left behind a child with a fragile destiny. In Cameroon, my nickname was Toro. For a better life, I then travelled to France to live with my aunt and uncle. I was promised this would be a wonderful experience, but nobody told me it would be hell. I become, Lucien, a slave. When I was 14, I fell into a coma. When I woke up, I had become blind. My destiny had no color and became increasingly darker, until one day I was able to create a little hope, a little light and a few bursts of color. Today, I have turned my misfortunes into victories and I wanted to share my story to inspire the world. Even though I can no longer see, my eyes are wide open to contemplate my Destiny. The one I have chosen.
Préface de Lorànt Deutsch " Je m'appelle Bruno Bellone et j'ai été footballeur professionnel. Cette biographie est la trace écrite de tous les matchs de ma vie, les plus beaux comme les plus ratés. Quand la gloire a commencé à me faire les yeux doux, on m'a surnommé Lucky Luke parce que je marquais plus vite que mon ombre. Ma riche carrière terminée trop tôt – l'année de mes vingt-huit ans – à la suite d'une blessure, ce surnom a alors traduit ma solitude et ma détresse face à mes multiples turbulences financières et personnelles. Il m'a fallu porter de nombreux deuils et déjouer tous les écarts de conduite de ma destinée, mais je suis assez fier d'avoir tenu les deux plus audacieuses promesses que je m'étais faites à moi-même : devenir footballeur professionnel et me sortir de l'enfer dans lequel mes revers de fortune m'avaient plongé. "
Essays by distinguished historians in honour of the just-retired Regius Professor of Modern History.
The Blizzard is a quarterly football publication, put together by a cooperative of journalists and authors, its main aim to provide a platform for top-class writers from across the globe to enjoy the space and the freedom to write what they like about the football stories that matter to them. Contents of Issue Fourteen ------------------------- World Cup Review ------------------------- * Cassiano Gobbet, The End of the Affair - Brazil’s 7-1 semi-final defeat will reverberate through history: what went wrong? * Ben Lyttleton, The Inevitable Conclusion - Another World Cup exit on penalties: why can’t the Dutch win shoot-outs? * Various, Notes from a Tournament - It wasn’t all about the ...
From the days of short pants and small screen black and white televisions, to international travel and attendance at the World Cup in person, 'My Incredible World Cup Journey' spans 36 years, stretches across ten World Cups, military juntas, corrupt officials, and goals with so-called divine intervention. Set against the backdrop of personal, political, and social change, Michael Renouf's memoir explore what football means both wihtin and beyond the 90 minutes on a pitch in a detailed, stunning, and humorous account.
Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes, enabling factories such as the Thames Iron Works and the Woolwich Arsenal to give birth to the teams that would become the Premier League mainstays known as West Ham United and Arsenal. They also explore how the age of amateur soccer ended and, with the advent of professionalism, how football became a sport dominated by big clubs with big money and with an international audience.
WORLD CUP FINALS (1930 – 2010) – A STATISTICAL SUMMARY, is a highly epitomized embodiment of the statistics on the WORLD CUP FINALS The information contained in this compendium are quite clear, factual, validated, authenticated and written in simple English blended completely with a soft sense for details and an admirable appetite for comparative analysis. Arranged in an easy to follow format, it is comprehensively loaded and garnished with deep soul-stirring information, to prove and add flavor, to accommodate varied reader interests. The compilation, which could be adjudged a detailed “Reference Book”, gives an in-depth knowledge to outsiders, insiders and to those who are neither ...