Friday, November 26, 2010

How To Dojeff Hards Hand Things

a good book on the solitude of soccer goalkeepers

" I am a lone fighter. After me there is nothing. I'm the last man, I am aware, no one can do nothing for me ... . "In the words of Uli Stein, mind awake and dell'Amburgo number one in the Eighties, the essence of the role of the goalkeeper, was a romantic figure and vulnerable in our modern game.
originality Just the tip of the role Fingering the author of this comprehensive and entertaining goalkeeping almanac, a kind of apt collection of characters and stories, all special and unpredictable. From the legendary Combi, Jascin, Zoff, Banks, Maier to modern supermen (Buffon, Casillas, Julio Cesar); and then Alberto, Zenga, Shilton, Ceni, Barthez, Pfaff, Kahn, Mazurkiewicz ... A chapter is dedicated to the "number 1 you do not expect" to those characters in history or literature in common from having been - at some point, long or short, of their lives - soccer goalkeepers: Camus, Nabokov, Che Guevara, Conan Doyle, reaching even to John Paul II. Finally, from Abbiati to Zoff, the cards of the most famous goalkeepers. "Being a bomber is a dream, make the goalie is a mission .

Gianpaolo Santoro, The loneliness of a number , manifestolibri - 176 pages, 18 €.

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