Tom Williams

Va-Va-Voom

The Modern History of French Football

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The players, the teams, the goals, the games, the scandals, the gloom and the glory: the story of French footballâ s chequered coming of age over the last 40 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781399403955
• ISBN-10: 1399403958
• Artikelnr.: 68579899

Autorenporträt

Tom Williams

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Les Poteaux Carrés
1. Les Bleus: One Night in Seville
2. Geste Technique: Le Coup Franc à la Platini
3. Bordeaux: Victory Amid the Vineyards
4. Marseille: Tapie's Tainted Triumph
5. Geste Technique: La Papinade
6. Les Rosbifs: Living the Dream
7. Nantes: The Goal That Came From Somewhere Else
8. Italie: Learning to Win
9. Geste Technique: La Roulette à la Zidane
10. Auxerre: One Small Village Still Resists
11. Angleterre: The Sound and the Fury
12. Arsenal: A Very English Frenchman
13. Les Bleus: Champions du Monde!
14. Geste Technique: La Spéciale Henry
15. Lyon: The Magnificent Seven
16. Les Bleus: From the Gutter to a Second Star
17. Espagne: The Ballad of ZZ and KB9
18. Le Foot Féminin: Lyon Light the Way
19. Paris Saint-Germain: All That Glitters
20. Allemagne: La Nouvelle Vague
Epilogue: How Not Toulouse
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

As it turns out, what was required to really define the identity of our football was a perspective that was partly inward-looking and partly continental. Erudite and engrossing, this book adds a biting modernity to the old legend of France's magnificent losers.