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Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game | 
 enlarge | Author: Marc Bennetts
Publisher: Virgin Books
Category: Book
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 13496
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0753513196
EAN: 9780753513194
ASIN: 0753513196
Publication Date: May 15, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Otlichno! (Excellent) May 11, 2008
Kharms (London, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd been looking forward to this book for a while after reading about it on the Virgin website, and it was worth the wait. With Chelsea and Man Utd about to battle it out in Moscow, and Zenit to take on Rangers in Manchester in the UEFA Cup final, the book couldn't have come at a better time. Aside from being extremely topical, it is also very well written , and Bennetts gets right to the heart of not only the Russian game, but Russia itself. Including excellent accounts of Terek Grozny's (from Chechnya) victory in the Russian FA Cup to England's defeat in Moscow last year to Guus Hiddink's transformation of Russian national football, the book, via politics, literature, and a host of fascinating interviews with oligarchs, hooligans and players and more, really does "decode Russia through football."
Great Simon Kuper (Football against the Enemy)foreword as as well, and he even mentions my all-time favourite Russian writer by way of describing Dynamo Moscow's misfortunes! (see nickname)
Recommended for anyone interested in Russia (even if you are not a big football fan)
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