Name: Battle For Turkey (en Inglés)
Price: 41.97 EUR
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Author: Patrick Keddie
ISBN: 9781784538026

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

TAURIS I B

Autor

Patrick Keddie

Categoría

Historia y Períodos , Oriente Medio , Turquía

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781784538026

Battle For Turkey (en Inglés)

Patrick Keddie (Autor) · TAURIS I B · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Battle For Turkey (en Inglés)"

‘In 1981 a young semi-professional [soccer player] – known as ‘Imam Beckenbauer’ for his piety and his dominant style of play – has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey’s military junta. His name was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and three decades later he is Turkey’s most powerful ruler since Ataturk….’ Turkey is a nation obsessed with soccer From the flares which cover the stadium with multi-coloured smoke and often bring play to a halt, to the ‘conductors’ - ultras who lead the ‘walls of sound’ at matches, Turkish soccer has always been an awesome spectacle. And yet, in this politically fraught country, caught between the Middle East and the West, football has also always been so much more. From the fan groups resisting the government in the streets and stands, to ambitious politicians embroiling clubs in Machiavellian shenanigans, football in Turkey is a site of power, anger, and resistance. Journalist and football obsessive Patrick Keddie takes us on a wild journey through Turkey’s role in the world’s most popular game. He travels from the streets of Istanbul, where fans dodge tear gas and water cannons, to the plains of Anatolia, where women are fighting for their rights to wear shorts and play sports. He meets a gay referee facing death threats, Syrian soccer players trying to piece together their shattered dreams, and Kurdish teams struggling to play soccer amid war. ‘The Passion’ also tells the story of the biggest match-fixing scandal in European soccer and sketches its murky connections to the country’s leadership. In doing so he lifts the lid on a rarely glimpsed side of modern Turkey. Funny, touching and beautifully observed, this is the story of Turkey as we have never seen it before.