Futebol Nation: a footballing history of Brazil
Futebol Nation: a footballing history of Brazil
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Futebol Nation：巴西足球史
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2017
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Christian Schwartz
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Christian Schwartz
人们不禁会觉得，事后看来，对大卫·戈德布拉特的著作《富特博尔国家：巴西的足球历史》提出的一些结论做出过于激烈的判断是相当不公平的。首先，也是最明显的一点是，只有拥有超自然的预言能力，作者才能想象到任何事情都比不上巴西国家队在主场输给德国队的壮观场面。自上世纪五六十年代的黄金时期以来，巴西队一直被称为塞莱昂，但在去年的世界杯半决赛中，塞莱昂注定要坚持下去。但戈德布拉特的书也对巴西进行了冒险的政治和社会学分析--大多数时候都是这样--在巴西现代史上罕见的社会动荡时刻：世界杯前几个月，特别是在2013年联合会杯期间，许多城市的街头发生了抗议活动(因此戈德布拉特建议将这些活动命名为Copa das Manifestaçóes，即示威杯)。作者指出，这些抗议活动证明了中国在过去20年里经历了爆炸性的城市化浪潮，以及以前与世隔绝的省份新的数字连接(第224页)，然后准确地描述了示威活动的起源和本质：
One cannot help but feel that, with the benefit of hindsight, it would be quite unfair to pass too fierce a judgement on some of the conclusions advanced by the otherwise thoroughly researched and accessibly written Futebol Nation: a footballing history of Brazil, by David Goldblatt. First, and most obviously, because only with supernatural foretelling powers could the author have imagined anything even close to the spectacular defeat at home against Germany that the Seleção, as the Brazilian team has been known since its golden age in the 50s and 60s, was doomed to endure in last year’s World Cup semi-finals. But Goldblatt’s book also takes on risky political and sociological analysis of the country – which it does competently most of the time – at a moment of social upheaval rarely seen in Brazilian modern history: the protests that took up the streets of many cities in the months leading up to the World Cup, and particularly during the 2013 Confederations Cup (hence Goldblatt’s suggestion that the events be named Copa das Manifestações – the Demonstrations Cup). Those protests, the author points out, were ‘testament to the explosive wave of urbanization that the country had undergone in the last two decades and the new digital connectedness of the previously isolated provinces’ (p. 224), and the genesis and essence of the demonstrations are then accurately described: