تاريخ العالم في 12 مباراة كرة قدم

An empowering saga of war, revolution, economics and social adjustment, told through the stories of the twelve football matches, with a parade of unlikely heroes, tragedies thwarted, and astonishing results that changed the face of the world... Football is intertwined with - at times during the match of crisis, and ending in the finals of the great World Series - because since its inception in 1848, the reverberations of what comes out of the field have reached play in universal ways that are unbelievable to history. It may spark a foot war, but it may also contribute to conflict: stopping the conflict, even if only for hours or days. For example, the story that begins this book: When French, Belgian, English and German soldiers were swept from their trenches in World War I to play ball with their reformers and a few hours during the Christmas Truce. This is just one of a dozen covered in the book. Among other events was the match between Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade in Croatia in 1990, when the fans easily told the police that Yugoslavia was about to go bloody. Or the Chile vs. Soviet Union match in 1973, which they lost in Santiago, Chile, long after Augusto Pinochet seized power in a bloody coup, and in the same stadium where thousands were imprisoned and tortured. The team won by missing a goal in the empty teams - as he refused to take to the designated field. This work combines journalism and eyewitness accounts, and invites us to look at our past and present from a new perspective. Because, far from what we could not imagine, history is periodically made as someone somewhere becomes.