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Brilliant Orange The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer
Brilliant Orange The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer
Author:
Brilliant Orange is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch soccer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, and who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little finger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange... more » is about Dutch space, and a people whose unique conception of it has led to some of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely cerebral form of soccer--Total Football--that led in 1974 to a World Cup finals match with arch-rival Germany. With its intricacy and oddity, it continues to mystify and delight observers around the world. As David Winner wryly observes, it is an expression of the Dutch psyche that has a shared ancestry with the Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Rembrandt's The Night Watch, maybe even with Gouda cheese. Finally here in paperback, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unexpected place and never lets go.
Author:
Brilliant Orange is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch soccer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, and who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little finger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange... more » is about Dutch space, and a people whose unique conception of it has led to some of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely cerebral form of soccer--Total Football--that led in 1974 to a World Cup finals match with arch-rival Germany. With its intricacy and oddity, it continues to mystify and delight observers around the world. As David Winner wryly observes, it is an expression of the Dutch psyche that has a shared ancestry with the Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Rembrandt's The Night Watch, maybe even with Gouda cheese. Finally here in paperback, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unexpected place and never lets go.
ISBN-13: 9781590200551
ISBN-10: 1590200551
Publication Date: 7/29/2008
Pages: 288
Rating: 3
ISBN-10: 1590200551
Publication Date: 7/29/2008
Pages: 288
Rating: 3
3.3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Genres:
- History >> Europe >> Netherlands
- Sports & Outdoors >> Soccer
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Anthropology >> Cultural
