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The Beautiful Team: In Search of Pele and the 1970 Brazilians (Paperback)

by Garry Jenkins (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; New edition edition (2 Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671015664
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671015664
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 291,878 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #19 in  Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Football > South American
    #28 in  Books > History > Countries & Regions > South America > Brazil
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"In hindsight it seems natural that (they) should have arrived in our living room the year after the first moon landing. They were, after Apollo11, the second great event of the new telecultural age."

Garry Jenkins journey in search of Pelé and the 1970 Brazilians began when he was a 12 year old, living in a small village in West Wales, and dazzled by the images on his television.

The Mexico World Cup was the first to be widely broadcast in colour and multi-racial Brazil, brilliant in gold and blue against the bleached turf, embraced the new palette as if it had been created for them.

World Cup winners define successive epochs in the game and the way it is won. The casual brilliance of the Brazilians was the fullest expression to date of everything that is beautiful about the sport.

Jenkins meets the surviving titans and finds unexpected answers to the questions of how they came to play the way they did and why the world has waited in vain for the Brazilians to show us again the summits that can be reached by 11 men and a football.

Following their progress from ignominious defeat in the 1966 tournament to the legendary dismissal of Italy and the rest of the world four years later, Jenkins vividly recreates the games themselves, but it is the stories from off the pitch that make this a uniquely entertaining portrait.

This thoughtfully crafted work is infinitely richer than the usual, breathless homages to the team. A definitive tribute to the definitive 11. --Alex Hankin



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An account of the journey by the author to Brazil to track down the surviving members of the 1970 world cup team. The players talk about their memories of the world cup and the events leading up to it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice trip down memory lane., 20 Feb 2002
By hugh_jenkins@hotmail.com (Perth, Australia (originally Wales)) - See all my reviews
  
Wonderful trip down memory lane for anyone who was around during World Cup 70. The flare and exhuberance of that Brazilian Team obviously had a huge impact on the author, as it did on the world. He unashamedly shares his joy in meeting the players from that team to compile this book, and it's particularly interesting to see the diversity of paths that the players have taken in subsequent years. If I have one criticism it was the author's complaining of Jairzinho's non-contribution to the book. Jairzinho wanted to be paid to contribute to what he saw as a commercial enterprise, and one has to assume that this book's production wasn't a work of charity by the author.
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4.0 out of 5 stars very informative - good review of team, 25 April 2000
Very nice review of the accounts leading up to the game and during the game - went off the subject just a little too much - but great insight on the players post careers - Garry - Id like to talk to you about a deal
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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully written book which captures the imagination, 13 Jan 2000
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superb piece of writing which as well as been entertaining, gives an insight into the paradox which is brazilian football....
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