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Few writers in his genre are on the same literary pitch. Wilson is the Lionel Messi of world football writing. He finds that the country's most celebrated moments and players are never as great as they seem.” — Bloomberg Businessweek What sets Wilson's book apart is the depth to which he goes to show how soccer weaves through Argentina's political and economic turmoil. ∺rgentina's narrative is complicated, and Jonathan Wilson mines all of it ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES. The soccer book of the decade." - Sunday Business Post "Here, for the first time in decades, is a top-notch soccer book on how soccer is actually played on the field." - Simon Kuper

In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Peróed the country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fú, the fusion of beauty and efficacy under C'sar Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats. Argentina's rich, volatile history - by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic - is mirrored in the style and swagger of its national and club sides. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di St'fano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. When she falls in love with a loner Yankee sheriff, she discovers forgiveness is the only way to heal a broken heart.The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer Southern Belle Rosy Sherry overcomes her self-doubt and a traditional past to take her place in history as Ragtown's first school teacher in 1866. Lena and Henry join forces but will they risk a second chance at love?

Lena's husband dies, leaving her alone and lonely in a foreign land until she meets Henry Barrett, a man searching for his kidnapped daughter. Lena Carlson and her husband come from the Old Country in 1861 and buy the Ragtown Mercantile. She finds the love of a good man in the hard-scrabble town and must decide whether to stay in Ragtown or to leave with her ma with the next wagon train. Her ma is too sick to travel and so Dory stays behind to take care of her while Pa and the boys continue on to California. As the town called Mexican Spur grows into a community, Kitty and her husband, Ward, are ready to be a family again-until the renegades who killed the children's parents return.ĭory Watkins arrives in Ragtown in 1854 by wagon train. In her considered opinion, the Nevada territory is no place to raise a family. When Kitty Cummings is asked to take in four orphaned children, she's not sure she's the mother they need. Today Ragtown is a ghost town in Nevada, but in the 1850's, the town thrived as a stopping off place for the wagon trains before they crossed the Sierra-Nevada Mountains into California.