PRAISE FOR LA ROJA: A JOURNEY THROUGH SPANISH FOOTBALL
‘There is so much people don’t know about Spain and Spanish football, and that is not a bad thing for as long as a complete writer like Jimmy Burns brings his unique vision to it. La Roja fills a hole in the knowledge of both Spain and Spanish football, as it goes beyond the football to explain a country, a society and its transformation through, thanks to and despite the beautiful game’ Guillem Balague, author of Sunday Times bestselling Brave New World: Inside Pochettino’s Spurs
PRAISE FOR MARADONA: THE HAND OF GOD
‘Those who have an interest in the sociology of football, in modern Argentina and in the “story behind the headlines” will admire Burns’ disturbing book which easily transcends the normal confines of sports journalism’ The Economist
‘Burns tells the story of Maradona with much skill and verve . . . the seamy backstairs politics of international football have never been more tellingly exposed’ Financial Times
‘Jimmy Burns is incapable of writing boringly’ Irish Times
PRAISE FOR BARCELONA: A PEOPLE’S PASSION
‘Burns’ strength lies not just in his compulsive, well-told story of the club’s evolution, but his notable grasp of Catalan history’ Sunday Times
‘FC Catalonia could scarcely have wished for a more thorough but sympathetic chronicler’ Sunday Telegraph
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Ask any football fan who’s better – Ronaldo or Messi – and they’ll have an opinion.
Football is a team game. The focused one-on-one rivalries that dominate other sports are virtually unheard of. But for the best part of the last decade, football has seen a personal rivalry unlike any that has come before: Cristiano and Leo.
This is their definitive story, from children kicking a ball halfway around the world from each other to their era-defining battle to be number one.
One the preening Adonis: a precise physical machine who blows teams away with his pace and power. The other a shuffling genius: able to do things with a football that seem other-worldly. Their differences seem to tap into something fundamental about football and, indeed, life.
Between them they have scored over a thousand goals, won the Ballon d’Or ten times and redefined modern football. For the last ten years they have shared the accolade of best footballer in the world and arguments rage over which one deserves the title of greatest player of all time.
Spanish and South American football expert Jimmy Burns has written the essential book to understand the defining players of a generation.
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Jimmy Burns studied in London and Lancashire, worked in Portugal, Spain, and Buenos Aires and is an award winning journalist and author, who wrote the internationally acclaimed Hand of God: A Biography of Diego Maradona, La Roja, Barça, and When Beckham Went to Spain. --Questo testo si riferisce alla paperback edizione. 
