The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Thirteen

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The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Thirteen

The Blizzard is a quarterly football publication, put together by a cooperative of journalists and authors, its main aim to provide a platform for top-class writers from across the globe to enjoy the space and the freedom to write what they like about the football stories that matter to them.

Contents of Issue Thirteen

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History
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* Uli Hesse, Never the Twain - The story of the meeting between West Germany and East Germany at the 1974 World Cup
* Greg Johnson, Hearts and Minds - Spain threaten, like Lennox Lewis, to be a great but unloved champion
* Richard Jolly, The Clubs behind the Countries - Which clubs have produced the most World Cup winners?
* MartÃn Mazur, The Moral Pendulum - Argentinaâ€™s eternal vacillation between fÃºtbol and anti-fÃºtbol

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Brazil
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* James Corbett, Fifa, Go Home! - What does hosting the World Cup mean for Brazil?
* James Young, Futebol Nation? - How much do Brazilians really care about football?
* Marius Lien, A Troubled History - The ambiguous past of JosÃ© Maria Marin, the head of the Brazilian World Cup

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Protagonists
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* Rupert Fryer, Sideshow takes Centre Stage - The Brazil defender on handling the pressure of being hosts
* Mike Phillips, The Multi-Kulti Question - How the Switzerland national team became part of the debate on immigration
* Vladimir Novak, Better Late than Never - Algeriaâ€™s Vahid HalilhodÅ¾iÄ‡ on finally making it to the World Cup as a manager
* Leo Verheul, The Artistâ€™s Boy - The Netherlands striker was shaped by the Rotterdam in which he grew up

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Minnows
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* Sean Carroll, The Secret Team - An Yeong-hag and Chong Tese on playing for North Korea at the 2010 World Cup
* Michael Yokhin, The Indomitability of Lions - In 1990 Cameroon overcame shambolic preparations to shock the world
* Oliver Pickup, Millaâ€™s Time - Oliver Pickup speaks to Roger Milla about becoming his nationâ€™s saviour at 38
* MartÃn Mazur, Two Men Down - In 1982 El Salvador came from war, chaos and corruption, lost 10-1 and retained their dignity

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Fiction
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* Iain Macintosh, Quantum of Bobby - Spinning through time and space, Bobby Manager finds himself in Italy in 1990

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Greatest Games
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* Jonathan Wilson, Hungary 4 Uruguay 2 (aet) - World Cup semi-final, Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne, Switzerland, 20 June 1954

* Rob Smyth & Scott Murray, Italy 3 Brazil 2 - World Cup second phase, Group C, Estadi de SarriÃ , Barcelona, Spain, 5 July 1982

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Eight Bells
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* Michael Yokhin, World Cup Cameos - A selection of players who played only a few minutes at the World Cup

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	The Blizzard Media Ltd
Manufacturer	The Blizzard Media Ltd
NumberOfPages	234
PublicationDate	2014-06-05
Publisher	The Blizzard Media Ltd
ReleaseDate	2014-06-05
Studio	The Blizzard Media Ltd

The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Thirteen

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