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E 'was published review of my book on the website of Gazzetta dello Sport, signed by Valerio Piccioni:
Streltsov, a teddy boy in the gulag
LONDON (July 31, 2010) - Meroni , Best, Cassano ... Since I came out, "Women, vodka and gulag," the book written by Mark Iaria Limina that sent the library a few days ago, is finding the hero for many comparisons Eduard Streltsov Copyright. One might put on, as the soundtrack, well Vasco Rossi's "The Reckoning" and the picture would be done. But Streltsov, the Soviet Teddy boy, shipped to the gulag by the premier of the time, Khrushchev and Brezhnev thawed by then, almost a somersault of the story if for no other reason that has something all its own.
FRA Khrushchev and Brezhnev - Do you understand the beautiful pictures that are the pit stop of a book that is read in one breath, that passage too quickly from the cowlick and the look of one who knows everything about life, the typical attitude of those who manages well with the ball, returning the smile and bald after. After the accusations of rape, after the national team and the Torpedo lost after isolation, after Gulag with his outline of thirty or forty degrees below zero. In between is the mystery of a man. The author tells us, was a miscarriage of justice. Or was innocent. It allows the reader to get an idea, to gather the facts and translating them into view: the hypothesis of a revenge of a powerful woman in the Politburo, the desire to learn by force, not being able to break away from football and the dream of a return day. A day will come, after an interminable dispute. Perhaps the best moment of the story is precisely the approach of this return, with the formation of the reserves of its Torpedo stadium in Odessa, everything for him. In an era, the early '60s, when television and newspapers was a child slaves impotent of censorship and political correctness, but Gorbachev and perestroika. Yet at some point, word of mouth can do a local radio station, the stadium fills up, hours are forty and you understand that the gulag did not break the thread of memory, Streltsov remained in the imagination, with its goals, just two in the first quarter of an hour, just to remind everyone that now he has not forgotten what you do with a ball. "Women, vodka and gulag ', written in great reporter, but without the hustle of a typical journalistic writing too, tells us how sport can be a key to study the history of the world. It would be nice, in other words, if a professor decides to adopt it even at school ...
Valerio Piccioni
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