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A guide to American football

2022-09-19T15:08:06.441Z


'More football lessons' is a clear example of acquired and shared passion for a sport that is barely known in Europe


Cover of 'More Football Lessons'

The social environment determines not only the sports that are practiced, but also those that are understood and those that are discarded due to an apparent difficulty in interpreting its rules.

If someone wants, for example, to explain the offside in football in a European or Latin American environment, he will do so from the authority of experience rather than from the fact of having sat down to read the rules of the game.

From watching it so much, you will know when it happens;

detailing such a complex rule will be another story.

There are sports that, in the popular imagination of the uninitiated, are really difficult to interpret.

American football is one of them.

Being a new universe that brings a huge amount of unknown information, it can overwhelm newbies.

However, the appearance of the Internet allowed the sport to go beyond the borders of the United States and millions of people could expand their knowledge about it or begin to understand it and, with it, enjoy it.

Also to share what they knew.

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Rubén Ibeas and Marco Álvarez are a clear example of acquired and shared passion.

And now they present

More football lessons

(Corner), a corrected, enlarged and updated edition of the first edition of the volume.

Ibeas and Álvarez have a great advantage: their passion for this sport.

That passion becomes a desire to add fans.

And they undertake the mission from a pedagogical spirit, full of empathy towards newcomers.

The roles of the team, the different types of coaches, the concepts used in the champion teams or the complete and studied strategy behind each play.

But also details for experts and a lot of history of the sport.

And an affectionate and generational memory for John Madden, one of the main characters in the history of the NFL, who died in 2021 and from whom the authors seem to have inherited the illusion of transmitting and spreading the love of American football.

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Source: elparis

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