This love is not for cowards :

Powell, Robert Andrew.

This love is not for cowards : Robert Andrew Powell. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Bloomsbury, 2012. - 261 pages ; 25 cm

Prologue -- Introduction -- Opportunity -- Monterrey -- More than a club -- The game -- EK -- Faith -- Fear -- The devil -- Fussion -- Immigration -- Paco -- The lottery -- Amor -- Lost -- Exodus -- The dead women -- Good sports -- Chivas -- Everything must go -- Wedding -- Politics (or, about those money-laundering allegations) -- The last straw -- Exodus : Part 2 -- Acknowledgments.

Traces a season in the Mexican border city where in spite of brutal violence its citizens are held together by a shared love for its soccer team, and addresses local drug and human trafficking issues and the city's high murder rate.

9781608197163 1608197166

9781608197163

2011039004

GBB233916 bnb


Soccer--Mexico--
Soccer teams--Mexico--
Manners and customs.
Soccer.
Soccer teams.
Soccer--
Soccer teams--


--Social life and customs.
Mexico--
--Social life and customs.


Nonfiction.

GV944.M6 / P69 2012

796.33409721/6