Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje : The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football
by
Gary Thacker
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1785318462
ISBN-13
9781785318467
Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Imprint
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 2021
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
586 grams
Dimensions
14.50 x 22.40 x 3.70 cms
Product Classification:
Football (Soccer, Association football)
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Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje is the story of Dutch football and the 1974 and 1978 World Cups. From the history of the game in the Netherlands, it charts the 'totaalvoetbal' era in a celebration of the beautiful football that came so close to making Holland world champions.
Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje: The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football is the story of a dazzling football dream. Built on the club successes of Ajax and Feyenoord, it''s a utopian ideal that blazed with a bright but ephemeral Oranje flame, scorching the football pitches of the world in the 1970s. Although Dutch clubs dominated the European Cup from 1969 to 1973, until 1974 the Oranje had failed to qualify for a World Cup for 36 years. Two finals then followed in successive tournaments, as ''totaalvoetbal'' burst from its chrysalis, proudly revealing to the world its wings adorned with vivid shades of Oranje. The winners were the brides. It was their day, but the Dutch sides were more beautiful, yet so fragile, and football loved them for it. This isn''t merely a tale of bridesmaids who came so close yet failed gloriously. It is the celebration of a footballing counter-culture, a revolution, a flame that burned so brightly, but so briefly. It''s the story of those Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje.
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