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# La Roja: How Soccer Conquered Spain and How Spanish Soccer Conquered the World

**Brand:** jimmy burns
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## Customer Reviews

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    A highwayscribery Book Report
  

*by S***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2012*

Delving, as it does, into Spain, "La Roja," has as much to do with politics as with that country's world champion national soccer team.Jimmy Burns has written an amenable yet substantive story about how Spain went from a bullfighting nation to kings of international football.He goes way back to the 1880s and an English-owned mine in Huelva where the first games of football were played exclusively by Brits. The journalistic knitting continues as Basque teams assert primacy and then Argentines come to enliven the game with a quick passing style."La Roja" is about the places where such trends were born and the people who sowed them on Spanish soil.Burns's chronicling of Barcelona F.C's role as an expression of Catalan culture and its rivalry with Real Madrid is deftly woven into discussion of the defeated Republic, the Monarchy, the Falange and, poignantly, the names of soccer players killed during the Spanish Civil War.Noteworthy, too, is Burns's analysis of the Franco dictatorship's aggressive engagement with football as a tool to soothe tensions on the Iberian peninsula, as a propaganda weapon, and as diplomatic entry to worlds otherwise closed to the regime.Burns suggests Franco made the Spanish national team a projection of homegrown fascism. A group possessing the "racial" qualities of true and pure Spaniards, and which brought to the playing field a particular "Spanish Fury." A sobriquet that stuck.Like many people in Spain who had little time for the national selection over the years, Burns believes that the "The Spanish Fury" amounted to a whole lot of nothing, and that success in world-class tournaments would be elusive until a more modern and technical conception of Spanish soccer could be born.Of course it happened. "La Roja" was released on the occasion of a repeat European Cup championship for the team of the same nickname. An unprecedented kind of success for such a national outfit.Although his lead-up to the latest and most glorious chapter in Spanish soccer is first-rate, this reviewer did not find Burns very clear on why the ultimate transformation occurred.Was it a special generation of players who learned how to transcend the rivalries carried over from the club level? Ditching Raul? Was it David Beckham's impact as a media and celebrity item on future Spanish stars? The Argentines?Maybe it's in there, but in any case, "La Roja" remains an always engaging look at a sudden dynasty. Its author understands soccer as culture and an expression of collective identities without forgetting that it is still sport.

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    Good on old; fair on new
  

*by H***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 24, 2013*

The author does a very nice job of addressing the major elements of the history and evolution of soccer (futbol) in Spain, especially in the first 225 or so pages which covers the period through the early 1980s. In the last 100 pages or so, however, although the key points are addressed, the pace accelerates tremendously and the quality and depth of the story decreases. The story jumps around in several places, losing continuity, and it seemed like the author needed to finish writing the book to meet a deadline. It's very well worth reading, especially for setting the background to understanding today's La Liga and national squad, but lacks depth on fully capturing the story of the more recent success. As background, I have played and followed soccer since my teenage years living in Argentina in the early 1970s and have been visiting Spain and relatives (mostly soccer fans, of course) since the mid-1990s.

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    A Team's identity
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2015*

A slow read initially. Some of the initial history was tough to go through, the pace only started to pick up after around chapter 10. But we do get some good insights into how different parts of Spain were introduced to Football and how they came to interpret it, playing their own distinctive styles to eventually form one whole team with a clear identity. At times, the book felt like fiction, being so descriptive of even the minutest of details. But i guess thats the beauty of the book.

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