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El clásico : Barcelona v Real Madrid : football's greatest rivalry / Richard Fitzpatrick.

Title
El clásico : Barcelona v Real Madrid : football's greatest rivalry / Richard Fitzpatrick.
Author
Fitzpatrick, Richard
Publication
London : Bloomsbury, c2012.

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Description
xii, 244 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Barcelona and Real Madrid: two of the most powerful and popular clubs in world football, and one of the world's most bitter sporting rivalries. Going far beyond the boundaries of just sport alone, this is a rivalry at the heart of Spanish life, taking in politics and culture and splitting a country in two. El Clasico gets to the heart of that rivalry, investigating the intrigue, the larger-than-life characters, the key flashpoints and their consequences. From civil war bloodshed to 40 years of fascism and links with General Franco, the clubs' shared history is the stuff of a Robert Harris novel and includes: murdered presidents from both clubs, player kidnappings, acts of hooliganism - and that's before you start thinking of the volatile football matches themselves.
Subject
  • Futbol Club Barcelona > History
  • Real Madrid Club de Fútbol > History
  • Sports rivalries > Spain > History
  • Soccer > Spain > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781408158791
  • 1408158795
OCLC
  • 810109794
  • SCSB-11562751
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library