By Sid Lowe
Worry and Loathing in l. a. Liga is the definitive heritage of the best competition in international game: FC Barcelona vs. genuine Madrid. It’s Messi vs. Ronaldo, Guardiola vs. Mourinho, the state opposed to the country, freedom combatants vs. Franco’s fascists, plus majestic targets and enchanting abilities. It’s the simplest groups in the world going head-to-head. It’s greater than a online game. It’s a warfare. It’s El Clásico.
Only, it’s no longer rather that straightforward. Spanish football specialist and historian Sid Lowe covers a hundred years of competition, athletic good looks, and excellence. worry and Loathing in l. a. Liga is a nuanced, revisionist, and brilliantly knowledgeable heritage that is going past recreation. Lowe weaves jointly this tale of the competition with the heritage and tradition of Spain, emphasizing that it truly is “never approximately simply the soccer.” With unique tales and dazzling anecdotes, he is taking us within this epic conflict, together with the injuries left via the Civil struggle, Madrid’s golden age within the fifties once they received 5 eu cups, Johan Cruyff’s Barcelona Dream workforce, the doomed Galáctico test, and Luís Figo’s “betrayal.”
By exploring the historical past, politics, tradition, economics, and language—while by no means forgetting the drama at the field—Lowe demonstrates the connection among those football giants and divulges the real tale in the back of their explosive contention.
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Some Barcelona fans almost miss it. They’re busy celebrating Messi’s goal. THERE HAVE BEEN 225 CLÁSICOS IN ALL, with Real Madrid winning ninety and Barcelona eighty-seven. The numbers rack up quickly: October 2012 was the thirteenth clásico in less than two years, such is the dominance of these two sides, and by the end of the season there would be three more of them. It all began at the Madrid Hippodrome on May 13, 1902, just a few hundred yards south of the Santiago Bernabéu. Soccer was far from the mass sport it is now.
Sadly, Antoni Ramallets and Josep Seguer passed away soon after this book was first published. Thanks are also due to the protagonists who spoke to me for this book but preferred not to be named and the many others who have enriched the story. Other interviews conducted over the years with players like Oleguer Presas, Raúl, Paco Pavón, Paco Gento, and David Beckham have also been drawn upon. As well as material from state archives, private papers, and the clubs, I’ve naturally leaned on the expertise and the work of reporters, writers, broadcasters, and historians and drawn on the accounts of protagonists.
Julio César Benítez is here too. He died of food poisoning in 1968, just three days before Barcelona faced Madrid. Today is the morning after Barcelona faced Madrid, forty-four years later. It is quiet now, empty, and the sun is shining. “You should have seen it yesterday,” says the woman who works here, helping to guide people through the labyrinth, past the roses on the Kubala family plot and the pennants, pictures, and ribbons in Catalan red and yellow and Barcelona blue and claret dotted around the cemetery.