The Soccer War

Resumen del libro

In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 after their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup.

By the time, he returned to Poland he had witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups and been sentenced to death four times. "The Soccer War" is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Ryszard Kapux{0026} x0015B;cix{0026} x00144;ski (Polonia, 1932-2007), Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades, publicó en Anagrama x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La jungla polaca, Estrellas negras, Cristo con un fusil al hombro, Un día más con vida, El Emperador, La guerra del fútbol, El Sha, El Imperio, Ébano, Los cínicos no sirven para este oficio, Lapidarium IV, El mundo de hoy, Viajes con Heródotox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Encuentro con el Otro. x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong Entre sus nume rosos galardones figura el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades, concedido en 2003.x{0026}lt;/p