Brilliant Orange : The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

Brilliant Orange : The Neurotic Genius of Dutch FootballAuthor: Winner, David Netherlands Published on 19 March 2001 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom. Paperback softback 288 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, , portraits 196 x 130 x 18 246g The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona,

Author: Winner, David

Netherlands

Published on 19 March 2001 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 288 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, , portraits
196 x 130 x 18 | 246g

The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird patterns of self-destruction) reflect and embody the country's culture and history. This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society.