{"product_id":"9781409126942-retail-angels-with-dirty-faces-the-footballing-history-of-argentina","title":"Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eInverting the Pyramid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi . . . Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breathes football, its theories and its myths.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Simultaneously epic and intimate, this is a magisterial work: not just a history of Argentinian football, but a history of Argentina' Tom Holland\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'People who like football like Brazil; people who love it love Argentina. This is essential, enthralling reading about the world's most intriguing, most important football culture' Rory Smith\u003cp\u003eJonathan Wilson is a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Blizzard\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eInverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics\u003c\/i\u003e was Football Book of the Year in 2009 and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Seven of his other books have been shortlisted for football book of the year and he has also won the Premio Antonio Ghirelli in Italy. \u003ci\u003eAngels with Dirty Faces\u003c\/i\u003e did the double of football book and history book of the year at the Polish Sports Book Awards in 2018. He is a three-time recipient of the FSA Football Writer of the Year award and in 2023 was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of Sunderland. He writes for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand in 2011 founded \u003ci\u003eThe Blizzard\u003c\/i\u003e, which he still edits. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollow him on Twitter: @jonawils","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46354911068379,"sku":"9781409126942-RETAIL","price":22.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2a5fad526fe440a4afbf3c552e5e55cb.png?v=1734403566","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781409126942-retail-angels-with-dirty-faces-the-footballing-history-of-argentina","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}