The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper - Brossura

Wilson, Jonathan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 075382874X ISBN 13: 9780753828748

Casa editrice: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2013

Riassunto

'Aloof, solitary, impassive, the crack goalie is followed in the streets by entranced small boys. He vies with the matador and the flying aces, an object of thrilled adulation. He is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender.' Nabokov (quoted here), Camus, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, even Julian Barnes . . .it's safe to say the goalkeeper hasn't always been a team player.

In THE OUTSIDER, Jonathan Wilson traces the sometimes dangerous intellectual and literary preoccupations of the keeper, and looks at how the position has secured a certain existential cool, as well as taking a deep tactical and technical look at the history of goalkeeping. There has been the odd, minor work on goalkeeping in the past, but nothing like this in scope or depth.

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Descrizione del libro:

First ever cultural history of the goalkeeper, the 'loner' between the posts.

L'autore:

Jonathan Wilson is the football correspondent for the FINANCIAL TIMES, and writes for the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH and GUARDIAN on-line. His work has appeared in the INDEPENDENT, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, FOURFOURTWO and WHEN SATURDAY COMES. He is the critically acclaimed author of BEHIND THE CURTAIN: TRAVELS IN EASTERN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL, SUNDERLAND: A CLUB TRANSFORMED and INVERTING THE PYRAMID: A HISTORY OF FOOTBALL TACTICS, which won a NATIONAL SPORTING CLUB AWARD and was shortlisted for the WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.

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• Editore: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 075382874X
• ISBN 13: 9780753828748
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320