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The Fifty tells the story of football through its best and most influential players, from the 19th century to the modern day. Most of the 50 are household names - Pele, Charlton, Maradona, Jimmy Hill, Matthews, Best, Zidane and Messi - and those who aren't certainly deserve to be. You'll read about football's first black superstar Jose Andrade, a 1930 World Cup winner with Uruguay who died in poverty. There's Lily Parr, a Woodbine-smoking behemoth of the women's game who is more famous now than when she died. Then there's Robbie Rogers, the second male footballer in Britain to come out as gay. Though Rogers wasn't a great player, his story will restore some faith after Justin Fashanu's appalling experiences as a gay footballer in the 1980s. Similarly, Jean-Marc Bosman made an indelible mark, not on the pitch but through the courts, changing the way footballers are treated forever. It's not about the stats, tactics or managers - this is the players' story, from war heroes and match-fixers to superstars and an African president.

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Talentueux et bon marché, les footballeurs africains sont une aubaine pour les clubs européens. Depuis l'arrêt Bosman, ils sont ainsi de plus en plus nombreux à franchir la Méditerranée, prêts à tout accepter pour fuir la misère. Organisés en réseaux, de nombreux escrocs en profitent. Sillonnant le continent, ils promettent monts et merveilles à leurs jeunes victimes, avant de s'évanouir dans la nature avec les économies de toute une vie. D'autres, plus structurés,servent de relais à des mastodontes aux moyens colossaux, qui ratissent l'Afrique à la recherche de la nouvelle perle noire. Entre l'Afrique et l'Europe s'organise ainsi un système de traite particulièrement opaque, où le footballeur africain ne vaut guère plus qu'un simple kilo de coton ou de cacao. Une marchandise extraite du continent, puis soumise à valorisation le long d'une grande chaîne de valeur ajoutée de laquelle tout le monde ressort gagnant, sauf les principaux intéressés. Pour tous ceux qui rêvaient de Ligue des champions, c'est la désillusion. Sans papiers, trimballés de club en club, arnaqués à la chaîne et abandonnés par les autorités, les jeunes rêveurs de Bamako, d'Abidjan ou de Kinshasa deviennent les esclaves modernes d'une machine à briser les rêves et les destins.

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Viva Colombia: A Social History of Colombian Football tells the story through 15 distinct episodes and 15 national team players. The book covers everything from the joie de vivre of the Colombian style - personified by Carlos Valderrama - to the travails of Colombian society illustrated by the tragic murder of Andrés Escobar in the aftermath of Colombia's 1994 group-stage exit. The narrative examines how personal stories interlink with the wider history of the nation. Despite many complexities, Colombia is often reduced to a series of off-beam stereotypes which exoticise, eroticise or misrepresent it. This book offers a timely corrective, telling the story through the eyes of a number of its key historical protagonists. From Colombia's first World Cup appearance in 1962 through to the present day, we discover what some of the most emblematic players to wear the shirt tell us about the Colombian nation.

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