Angels With Dirty Faces

The Footballing History of Argentina

By: Jonathan Wilson

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Paperback | 7 December 2023 | Edition Number 1

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'ABSORBING' Guardian

'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman

'EPIC' Evening Standard

'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times

'MAGISTERIAL' Irish Examiner

Fully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid

Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistua, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi... Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last two decades, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breathes football, its theories and its myths.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition looks at the contrasting evolution of Argentinian football over the last ten years; from the chaos and violence of the abandoned 2018 Copa Libertadores final between River Plate and Boca Juniors to the revitalised national side under manager Lionel Scaloni, which triumphed at the 2019 Copa America and the 2022 World Cup.

ANGELS WITH DITY FACES is the definitive history of a great footballing nation and its many paradoxes.

Industry Reviews

In its expression of ruined promise, domestic football in Argentina has mirrored the country's social, financial and political life . . . An inescapable sense of regret and decay pervades this thorough and evocative chronicle - Sunday Times, Best Sports Books of 2016

The definitive history of Argentinian football - Guardian

Enthralling and often disturbing . . . The author is at his best when he is dissecting Argentinian football's idealised, aesthetically pleasing past, the psychodrama of its modern game, and its chequered football history - New Statesman

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