This book was wrongly delivered to a house I lived in, and where we were in our lives, we opened the package up, and I ended up keeping it.
It's really good, and helped me understand Pele, Brazilian soccer, the late '50s through the '70s in international soccer, and the effect soccer---and Pele---has on the world, still today.
And that's pretty much it. This book has many pages for such a light collection of anecdotes. They're all very entertaining, and you get a tiny glimmer of what life in Brazil might be like, a country that's not fed the politics of the threat of global war.
In Brazil it's all about integration, dancing, soccer, and bathing suits made out of dental floss...a more magical place couldn't be created in fiction. Except for those murder rates...
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