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Brilliant Orange

The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

David Winner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:19th Mar '01

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The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird patterns of self-destruction) reflect and embody the country's culture and history. This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society.

'Original and conventional ... Fascinating and individualistic, Brilliant Orange beguiles you like a Cruyff turn' The Times

  • Short-listed for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 200

ISBN: 9780747553106

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 236g

288 pages

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