Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup - Softcover

Richards, Rhys

 
9781836802457: Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1836802455 ISBN 13: 9781836802457
Verlag: Pitch Publishing Ltd, 2026

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Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cup of all time. When Argentina both hosted and won the World Cup in 1978, just two years after the coup d'etat that ousted Isabel Perón, it was against the backdrop of a brutal military dictatorship in the country. Under the leadership of General Jorge Videla, up to 30,000 citizens, categorised as subversives, 'disappeared'. Dogged by allegations of bribery, coercion and an historic failed drugs test, this is the story of Argentina's maiden World Cup triumph and the controversy that simmered behind it. This isn't exclusively a tale of footballers and generals, and the risks they took to succeed. It's a story of the people: Argentinean exiles, Parisian students, brave journalists, the marching mothers of Plaza de Mayo and their missing children - and Dutch stand-up comedians who led international boycotts from thousands of miles away.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rhys Richards is a writer and English teacher from Pen y Graig in the Rhondda Valleys. He has been published in The Guardian and has written for These Football Times, The Football Pink and The Football History Boys, primarily focussing on football's role in Latin American history.

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Verlag
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1836802455
ISBN 13 
9781836802457
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Anzahl der Seiten
328
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