Tears at La Bombonera
eBook - ePub

Tears at La Bombonera

Stories from a Six-Year Sojourn in South America

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eBook - ePub

Tears at La Bombonera

Stories from a Six-Year Sojourn in South America

About this book

Tears at La Bombonera is author Christopher Hylland's six-year journey living, working and travelling through South America - where football is a way of life. From Buenos Aires to Colombia's Caribbean coast, and back again, Hylland experiences the history and fanaticism at some of South America's football clubs along the way. Football is a global language, and he shares the stories and experiences from the terraces. It's a place where what happens on the pitch can rank low in terms of quality, but means so much off of it; where everything else, most notably the culture of the game, is unrivalled. Hundreds of thousands of football-mad visitors flock to South America every season. To the iconic stadia such as La Bombonera and MaracanĂŁ; to lower division teams in the shadows of some of the world's poorest slums and favelas. Tears at La Bombonera is a book rich in human interest, including the author's own personal experience of adapting to a new continent and way of life.

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Information

Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781785319044
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. An Introde to Eduardo Galeano
  8. List of important phrases
  9. 1. Boring, boring Arsenal de SarandĂ­
  10. 2. Racing Club’s mufa
  11. 3. Martyred Markitos at Defe
  12. 4. The theft of the Argentinian Wembley
  13. 5. Tears at La Bombonera
  14. 6. ‘Brazil’s Hiroshima’
  15. 7. Semi-finals and UFOs
  16. 8. The superclĂĄsico of international football
  17. 9. Santiago de Chile: the atrocities at Gate 8
  18. 10. A short excursion to Excursionistas
  19. 11. La Paz: the gringo trail
  20. 12. Lima: Foals to the slaughter in deepest, darkest PerĂș
  21. 13. BogotĂĄ: English referee scores winner against Millonarios
  22. 14. MedellĂ­n: Plata o plomo and el narco-fĂștbol
  23. 15. Cali: Garabato’s curse
  24. 16. Lima calling
  25. 17. In Patagonia
  26. 18. Rosario: Lepers versus Scoundrels
  27. 19. Buenos Aires: ‘Half plus one’
  28. Epilogue
  29. Chronological list of games attended in South America (2009-2019)
  30. Acknowledgements
  31. Photos