Sports in South America: A History

by Matthew Brown

The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Sports in South America follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay's hosting of the first FIFA Men's World Cup in 1930. Matthew Brown shows how South American soccer culture, envied worldwide, sprang out of societies that were already playing and watching games...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300247524
• ISBN13: 9780300247527
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"