Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina

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There are also some quirks every now and then, such as the way Boca Juniors ended up wearing their iconic jersey colour due to losing a bet in a match and had to adopt the colour of the first ship they saw entering the harbour (which happened to be a Swedish vessel), or how River Plate got its name from the name of a container that the local guys supposed to move (but they played football instead). Eagan, Daniel (2012). America's Film Legacy, 2009–2010. United Kingdom: Continuum. ISBN 1441158693.

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Neibaur, James L. (2014). James Cagney: Films of the 1930s. United States: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 1442242205. Did you catch that 'Home Alone' Easter Egg in 'Detective Pikachu'? Here's how it was added into the movie". Newsweek. 10 May 2019.p. 240: Carmine Giuliano: a former Italian Camorrista who was the boss of the powerful Giuliano clan based in the district of Forcella, Naples. Wilson says ‘I wanted to include the theory and place the sport in its social, economic and political context, and I wanted to include the people, the players and coaches whose lives are so remarkable that they seem to have fallen from a magic-realist novel, but I didn’t want to stint on the football, on the games and the goals that actually make us watch in the first place, on the culture that provides the currency in which so much of Argentinian life is transacted. But while this is primarily a history of football, so entwined are the political and socio-economic strands, so inextricably is football bound up with all public life, that this is also a book about Argentina’. Football had been introduced to Argentina by British expatriates in the 19th century during a period when it was part of the informal empire; after the Anglos dominated the early years of the domestic league the 'criollisation' of the sport moved on apace, coinciding with mass immigration from Europe and the Middle East, rapid urbanisation and industrialisation plus the development of 'Argentinidad', a national identity centred at first on the figure of the gaucho but then on football. Uruguay's remarkable successes in the Olympic Games of 1924 and 1928 and the inaugural World Cup in 1930 put South American football and this tiny nation on the map; as professionalism took hold and the five 'grandes' (River Plate; Boca Juniors; Racing; San Lorenzo; Independiente) began to dominate the league, so Argentina entered a Golden Age in which the distinctive national style known as La Nuestra (Our Way) was said to be producing the best football in the world.

Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a

Wilson’s closing passage links everything together brilliantly. It is in these final lines of the book that his authoritative and convincing argument concludes: ‘Football is another Argentinian dream that slipped away... Argentinian football has become something that is played elsewhere’. p. xv: "The whole of Buenos Aires has an air of wishing the past had never ended; the only question is which past it is." He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.Angels with Dirty Faces is no romanticized tale of crime and punishment. The three lives in this creative nonfiction account are united by the presence of actual harm—sometimes horrific violence. Imarisha, dealing with the complexities of her own experience with sexual assault and accountability, brings us behind prison walls to visit her adopted brother Kakamia and his fellow inmate Jimmy “Mac” McElroy, a member of the brutal Irish gang the Westies. Together they explore the questions: People can do unimaginable damage to one another—and then what? What do we as a society do? What might redemption look like?