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The extraordinary and entertaining story of how the Racing Club of Madrid survived an adventurous tour of America before its dissolution.
A century ago, a modest team burst onto the Spanish football scene to challenge established clubs for hegemony. It was Racing de Madrid, which soon became the best team in the city.
Urban expansion forced the club to abandon its popular Chamberí stadium. To recover its prestige, which had diminished throughout the 1920s, the club embarked on two ambitious projects: the construction of a lavish golf course in Vallecas and a bizarre tour of America in 1931 to pay for it. All this precipitated its ruin.
Their arrival in Peru was greeted by a military uprising. In Cuba they were surprised by a violent rebellion. In Mexico they signed a world star. In the underground jazz dens of the United States they came up against gangsters.
Everywhere they provoked riots and everywhere they fought with their bare fists.
This is the story of that epic: a narrative as delusional as it is true.
23 x 15 cms, softback, 208 pages.
2023
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