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Scunthorpe Hasta la Muerte: The Extraordinary Journey of English Football's Spanish Pioneer by Inigo Gurrachaga (Hardcover, 2016)
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In September 1996, Alex Calvo Garcia, a largely unknown Basque footballer arrived in England. What followed was an unlikely eight-year long love affair, in which Calvo Garcia took Scunthorpe United to his heart and embraced the town as its people did him.
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In September 1996, Alex Calvo Garcia, a largely unknown Basque footballer arrived in England. Recently released by Eibar in the lower reaches of the Spanish league, the journey represented the 24 year-old's final opportunity to make it as a professional footballer. Without a word of English and at a time when foreign players were rare on British soil - and unheard of in the town of Scunthorpe - the odds seemed stacked against him. What followed was an unlikely eight-year long love affair, in which Calvo Garcia took Scunthorpe United to his heart and embraced the town as its people did him. A Spanish pioneer to the English game, his was a career spent not in the great arenas of football, like Old Trafford and Anfield, but in its less salubrious outposts While he may not have achieved the fame and wealth of some of his compatriots, the happiness Calvo Garcia took from his time at Glanford Park he says made him far richer. In Scunthorpe Hasta La Muerte (Scunthorpe 'til I die), the acclaimed Basque journalist Inigo Gurrachaga traces his Calvo Garcia's career from the Basque country to Wembley, where he scored the goal that took Scunthorpe to the old third division in the play-offs, and beyond. Its narrative embraces the history of football, of Scunthorpe, of the religions, social ideas and stories that shape the followers of a club in North Lincolnshire with a funny name. Part biography, part social history, part meditation on what it is to be an outsider ultimately embraced by the introverted world of football, Scunthorpe hasta la muerte is a rare thing: a beautifully written account of the underbelly of English football and a masterpiece of sportswriting.Product Identifiers
PublisherDecoubertin Books
ISBN-139781909245372
eBay Product ID (ePID)222322648
Product Key Features
Book TitleScunthorpe Hasta La Muerte: the Extraordinary Journey of English Football's Spanish Pioneer
AuthorInigo Gurrachaga
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
GenreBiographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width138mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorInigo Gurrachaga
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 25 Nov, 2020
Cult book for a cult hero
Quality book. Well researched and written. Really gets into the social history of the town itself to add fascinating depth to this fantastic book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
