by Jimmy Burns · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780857206541
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«La Roja: A Journey Through Spanish Football» is Jimmy Burns's essay on football history, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback, in English.
The book traces the history of Spanish football from the first matches of British sailors and engineers in Bilbao and Buenos Aires to the dominance of FC Barcelona and Real Madrid and the national team's world title. It analyses the influence of South American and Italian stars and how local and foreign talent overcame political adversity.
The edition was published in 2012 and its cover indicates it includes Spain's victory at Euro 2012.
It will appeal to football fans and sports history enthusiasts who want to understand how Spanish football came to have a world champion national team.
Jimmy Burns is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Although he was born in the Mississippi Delta, Burns has spent nearly all his life in Chicago. His elder brother, Eddie "Guitar" Burns, was a Detroit blues musician.
