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Original Title:	The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy
ISBN:	0767905997 (ISBN13: 9780767905992)
Edition Language:	English

The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy

Joe McGinniss

Paperback | Pages: 404 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 3378 Users | 195 Reviews

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Title	:	The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy
Author	:	Joe McGinniss
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 404 pages
Published	:	June 6th 2000 by Broadway Books (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Sports. Nonfiction. Football. Soccer. Cultural. Italy

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Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor league soccer team--and delivers a brilliant and utterly unforgettable story of life in an off-the-beaten-track Italian village. When Joe McGinniss sets out for the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro one summer, he merely intends to spend a season with the village's soccer team, which only weeks before had, miraculously, reached the second-highest-ranking professional league in the land. But soon he finds himself embroiled with an absurd yet irresistible cast of characters, including the team's owner, described by the New York Times as "straight out of a Mario Puzo novel," and coach Osvaldo Jaconi, whose only English word is the one he uses to describe himself: "bulldozer."   As the riotous, edge-of-your-seat season unfolds, McGinniss develops a deepening bond with the team, their village and its people, and their country. Traveling with the miracle team, from the isolated mountain region where Castel di Sangro is located to gritty towns as well as grand cities, McGinniss introduces us to an Italy that no tourist guidebook has ever described, and comes away with a "sad, funny, desolating, and inspiring story--everything, in fact, a story should be" (Los Angeles Times).

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2.5 stars.This book should've been called Joe McGinniss Goes to Italy So That Joe McGinniss Can Talk to Italians and Report on how They React to Joe McGinniss by Joe McGinniss. A really great sports story is hidden somewhere in these 404 pages, but I'd forgive you if you missed it. McGinniss spends most of the book arguing with the coach about tactics (even though he knows nothing about soccer), claiming that he's as close to the team as if they were family (even though a player's son says his



"Il guaio con te, Joe, e che sai rispondere a tutte le domande anche sei non sai proprio niente." "Joe, the trouble with you is that you knows everything. But in the same times you knows nothing that you talks about."The above quotes, the first in Italian by Mister Jaconi, the coach of the team, and the following English translation by a young player on the team, may as well have been the title of the book. Author, Joe McGinniss falls in love with soccer in his 50's after watching the 1994 World

This was an interesting read for me. It challenged me throughout because of the game it revolved around--soccer--which I know very little about. There was also a lot of dialogue written in Italian, sometimes translated, sometimes not. So sometimes I just had to do my best to figure it out. Overall, it was a very inspiring book about the motivation of the players and the love they have for the game. Much love was also given to the village the team was from, especially the special nature of the

Excellent story of a Serie B team and life as a Italian Soccer player in a small town.

A very entertaining book. The Author tries to give an honest account of his season with Italy's football club Caste di Sangro, who were miraculously peomoted to serie A in the nineties. The slight problem is that McGinnis does not really understand football (and keeps calling it socccer, unfortunately) or the culture around football. His outlook is so very American, it's sometimes like he thinks the serie A is governed like the NFL or NBA.His naivete is charming at times. Like when he thinks he

A very interesting story given to me by a good friend. By the end, I really disliked the author and was ready to stop reading about him. Afterwards, I felt like he focused a lot of the book on negatives (in typical journalist fashion). And it didn't make me feel proud of being Italian. So not one I'd recommend.