Magnum Soccer

by Editors of Phaidon Press; ; ; ;

• ISBN13: 9780714842363
• ISBN10: 0714842362
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-24
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

There are few things that unify people across the world better than the gamef football. More than just kicking a ball about, football stirs passionseyond rational thought, affecting the mood of a nation or even the fortunesf a government. Since the 1930s, various members of Magnum have photographedhe world of football, documenting the teams, the supporters, and the game,rom barefeet on African mud or a Brazilian beach, to kicking cans in theackstreets of Newcastle.;This collection of photographs shows how deep theoots of football run and how wide they are spread, how football culturerosses every boundary of nationality, race and religion, how it throws upmportant social issues such as the empowerment of women through football inran and the bitter religious rivalry between Glasgow's two teams Rangers andeltic. The photographs combine the beauty of the game itself with theesthetic quality associated with the photographers of Magnum and provides aelebration of the "world game" as well as a social portrait of the worldver a period of more than half a century.

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(11)
The Team	15	(26)
The Place	41	(32)
The Supporters	73	(26)
The Pass	99	(20)
The Beautiful Game	119	(20)
The Goal	139	(20)
The Passion	159