Michael J. Agovino (Livres)

Michael J. Agovino Livres

Michael J. Agovino est un auteur dont l'écriture se caractérise par sa sensibilité et une oreille attentive pour capturer les voix et les rythmes de la vie urbaine. Ses œuvres dépeignent magistralement des personnages vivants, explorant des thèmes tels que l'argent, la chance et les liens familiaux avec un usage fréquent de l'ironie et un style évocateur. La prose d'Agovino plonge dans les changements sociaux et les symboles culturels, offrant aux lecteurs un aperçu intime et charmant des expériences humaines. Il fait également preuve d'une observation passionnée du sport, le transformant en récits captivants.

The Soccer Diaries

318pages
12 heures de lecture

Although soccer had long been the world's game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans got wise and turned it into one of the most popular sports in the country. Agovino's love affair with soccer is a portrait of the game's culture and an intimate history of the sport's coming of age in the United States. Agovino's quest takes him from the unkempt field in the Bronx where he taught himself to play to some of the sport's most storied venues and historic matches. With Agovino we travel from school fields to Giants Stadium, then from England to Germany, Italy, and Spain, and FIFA headquarters, along the way taking in the final days of the North American Soccer League, the 1994 World Cup, and the birth of Major League Soccer. Offering the perspective of fan, pickup player, and journalist, Agovino chronicles his obsession with the sport and its phenomenal evolution. Michael J. Agovino is the author of The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City.