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 Soccer Madness Brazil’s Passion for the World’s Most Popular Sport
Janet Lever
Lever’s interest in Brazilian soccer and her
friendship with Pelé led to this thoughtful, well-written account of Brazilians’
madness for spectator sports. Drawing on interviews with soccer club directors,
coaches, players, officials, sportswriters, fan club leaders, and 200 fans,
Lever gives students a fascinating study of people, culture, and politics. She
reaches beyond soccer in Brazil to analyze both the appeal and the cultural
achievement of spectator sports in all modern societies. Sports, she finds,
provide an arena for dramatizing conflicting loyalties while emphasizing the
shared interests that make us all alike. $19.50 list, 200 pages 10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-843-5 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-843-0 © 1983 “Soccer Madness . . . is a fascinating study of people, culture, and politics—with its ultimate insight being about us, tenants of the Sports Age. Soccer is coming . . . and fans, sports writers, and those who would be in the know about modern times ignore this book at their risk.” —Rick Telander, Sports Illustrated
“Janet Lever has given us a first-rate book.” —Charles H. Page, Contemporary Sociology
“Lever has given the reader a small book as
well written as it is thoughtful; the role of sport in human society is
deserving of more study, and this account is a happy example painted in the
bright colors and sharp contrasts of Brazilian life.” —Philip Morrison,
Scientific American Table of Contents
Preface 1995 |