Book description
The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and
sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the
sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who
remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own
image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential.
The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking
tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird
patterns of self-destruction) reflect and embody the country's culture
and history. This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the
Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and
analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the
context of wider Dutch society. 'Original and conventional ...
Fascinating and individualistic, Brilliant Orange beguiles you like a
Cruyff turn' David Winner is a freelance journalist and has written
two previous books, Those Feet and Brilliant Orange. He lives in Rome.
