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Football Murals
A Celebration of Soccer's Greatest Street Art: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023
Football Murals
A Celebration of Soccer's Greatest Street Art: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 – SPORT
'A beautiful showcase of such a distinctive part of the game's culture... impossible not to get lost in the book' – Miguel Delaney, The Independent
'Gorgeous to behold... Unmissable' – Danny Kelly, TalkSPORT radio presenter
On high-rise buildings, street corners and stadium walls around the world, eye-catching murals pay tribute to footballing greats. Offering a fresh, visual perspective on the game, Football Murals is the first book to celebrate these towering works of art.
This richly illustrated book showcases the most impressive examples, explores their inspirational qualities and examines what they say about these icons and their sport.
Written and curated by respected football writer Andy Brassell, this ground-breaking book features more than 100 murals from around the world, capturing the scale, grandeur and wit of this powerful and popular art form. Through a series of short essays and extended captions, Andy shares the players' stories, discusses the cultural politics and explains just why these men and women have been immortalised in mural form.
Covering such diverse topics as Home Town Glory, Football Fame and The Cult of the Coach, Football Murals addresses the issues important to fans worldwide. It spans Marcus Rashford's inspirational mural in a Manchester suburb, the George Best tribute on the East Belfast estate where he was born, the 15-foot depiction of Megan Rapinoe in St Paul, Minnesota, and the Naples 'shrine' to Diego Maradona.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Hometown Glory
Chapter 2: Johan Cruyff
Chapter 3: Wayne Rooney
Chapter 4: The Good Fight
Chapter 5: Pelé
Chapter 6: Big Moment Players
Chapter 7: Cristiano Ronaldo
Chapter 8: Back to Life
Chapter 9: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Chapter 10: Ada Hegerberg
Chapter 11: Football Fame
Chapter 12: Paul Gascoigne
Chapter 13: Francesco Totti
Chapter 14: Fifty Years of Hurt
Chapter 15: Lionel Messi
Chapter 16: This Is My House
Chapter 17: Ronaldinho
Chapter 18: Soul of the Game
Chapter 19: Megan Rapinoe
Chapter 20: The Cult of the Coach
Chapter 21: Diego Maradona
Chapter 22: Mohamed Salah
Chapter 23: When Love Breaks Down
Chapter 24: Franz Beckenbauer
Chapter 25: Murals Memorial
Chapter 26: Lucy Bronze
Chapter 27: Cult Heroes
Chapter 26: Zinedine Zidane
Product details
Published | Nov 01 2022 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 176 |
ISBN | 9781399402804 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Sport |
Illustrations | Colour photography throughout |
Dimensions | 10 x 7 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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This book is a work of art about football's works of art, with the added bonus of brilliant slices of social history. Loved it.
Kevin Day, broadcaster
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A beautiful showcase of such a distinctive part of the game's culture, perfectly explained by the writer who knows so much about more of the game's cultures than anyone else. It is impossible not to get lost in the book as you take in some captivating images, made all the better by finding out from Andy exactly what it all represents.
Miguel Delaney, chief football writer, The Independent
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Gorgeous to behold; packed with knowledge. Andy Brassell effortlessly weaves two wonderments, football and urban folk art. Unmissable for fans of either.
Danny Kelly, TalkSPORT radio presenter
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I absolutely love this book. Full of colour that jumps off the page! Where some of the artwork is iconic, others were so fun to learn about. But the one thing they all have in common is they're all visually beautiful, thought provoking, and they tell a wonderful story about how powerful football can be – and Andy's words are the perfect guide through them.
Jules Breach, BT Sport/ITV football presenter
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Brassell celebrates the variety and spectacle of this fan art, showing how eloquent supporters can be about their teams.
The Observer
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Superb … Brassell has struck just the right balance between telling the story and allowing the pictures to do their own talking.
Late Tackle