'Wilson is one of soccer's most respected historians and anoraks and here he delivers the definitive history of the beautiful game in Argentina' - Mark Keane * IRISH DAILY MAIL * Conceiving of and writing a book like this is an achievement in and of itself' - Michael Moynihan * IRISH EXAMINER * This is the kind of book you don't see too often, an attempt to use a broad canvas and to include detail far beyond team sheets and scorelines. It's a history of Argentina as reflected in the sport, and how life in Argentina has been reflected in the sport. Now Wilson has turned his considerable powers to one country and its obsession with the game: ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES. Treatise on tactics that's worth a hundred dismal 'autobiographies'. 'Jonathan Wilson's INVERTING THE PYRAMID is easily the best game about soccer I've ever read, a HBO could make this into a series' * SPORT * 'From Alfredo Di Stefano to Lionel Messi, Argentine football get the Jonathan Wilson treatment in this exhaustive, illuminating history. A sprawling, vibrant book about soccer in Argentina, a country where the sport is every bit as important and reflective of the society as it is anywhere in the world' * KIRKUS REVIEWS * He writes confidently about the sport, including tactics and strategies, but also about social and political questions. has a fine eye for detail and a solid grasp of the big picture. densely detailed but absorbing book' - Richard Williams * GUARDIAN * as a writer who knows and appreciates Argentina, he is prepared to take on the more demanding task of telling the story in parallel with that of the country's turbulent political and social evolution. fine-grained and often original research. 'Wilson, as you would expect from the author of several important books on football history and tactics, goes far deeper than the stereotype. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781409126942 Number of pages: 576 Weight: 420 g Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 37 mm MEDIA REVIEWS This is essential, enthralling reading about the world's most intriguing, most important football culture' Rory Smith
'People who like football like Brazil people who love it love Argentina. 'Simultaneously epic and intimate, this is a magisterial work: not just a history of Argentinian football, but a history of Argentina' Tom Holland 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.
But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. The definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the PyramidĪlfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi.
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