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Jaime Pulgar Vidal, historian and sports journalist, delivers a new study on football from its immersion in Peruvian society, its formation and its participation as a project of national politics between the years 1911 and 1939.
Through a historical account, the author narrates how soccer, a foreign sport, became of utmost importance for the political class as a tool to establish ties and exercise power over citizens.
In chronological order, the author presents us in the first part, called The Hits, the strategies and political figures who intervened so that this sport, elite at first, reached the Peruvians who were studying and the
workers regardless of their origin or social stratum, and so that street kids could also play it later. In the second part of the book, The Goals, the author focuses on the formation and actors of the first soccer teams, on the national team during its first World Cup (Uruguay, 1930) and on the first gold medal we won. , in the Bolivarian Games of Bogotá in 1938, all of this among other notable episodes, until 1939. In this way, Pulgar Vidal explores the Peruvian society of that period through football, analyzing the birth of the new style of play — the fulbo—and how it is part of our national identity.
A book for all those who wish to know the origins of Peruvian football.
21 x 15 cms, softback, 232 pages.
2018
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