Beautifully researched and engagingly told, this book captures the bitter conflicts and surprising continuities that marked the emergence of a national style in Brazil as it tells the story of the men and women who, despite their many differences, together created the beautiful game. Roger Kittleson, author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil
Compellingly shows how each segment of Brazilian society players, club owners, and spectators, especially the usually neglected female fans was touched by the sport that it eventually came to proudly embrace as...