Yes, this is a time where publishers are scrambling for every World Cup dollar. They are looking to take advantage of the increased interest in the game and the huge audience that comes with it every four years. Well Bloomsbury has come up with an incredible read in Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos. This is a previously released title with some major updates and revisions specifically for the 2014 World Cup. It is well
Football is life. That might has well been the title of David Goldblatt’s newest work, one that takes on the enormous task of explaining the Brazilian way of football. In Brazil football is a big part of life and politics and history, part of the social fabric of an emerging nation and future global anchor. It is an obsession that has taken the huge country by storm and it has been that way for years. Cover Art Courtesy of Nation
