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Reader may get a kick out of sports `Miracle'
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The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. By Joe McGinniss. Little,
Brown. 416 pages. $25.
Well into this story of a provincial soccer team that improbably
scaled the heights of the sport in a land where the game has a more
devoted following than Catholicism, I began thinking I had mistakenly
picked up a Giovanni Guareschi novel.
Was I reading one of those charming and humorous Don Camillo-type
tales of eccentric but lovable Italian villagers?
"I had come to the Abruzzo to write a beautif...
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; ... chance. He was looking for a good story on which to let his new obsession loose. And back then the Italian papers were filled with news on the team from Castel di Sangro. Against all odds, it had advanced from the doldrums of semiprofessional soccer to the Serie ...
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The joys and perils of a love affair with soccer
The Boston Globe
; THE MIRACLE OF CASTEL DI SANGRO By Joe McGinniss Little, Brown, 407 pp., $25 Early on in "The Miracle of Castel di Sangro," Joe McGinniss is explaining his raison d'etre to the local capo, who also happens to own the soccer team McGinniss will be following. McGinniss explains that he has forfeited
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ITALIAN SOCCER TEAM'S TALE WILL BE OF INTEREST TO SPORT'S DIE-HARD FANS.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Early on in ``The Miracle of Castel di Sangro Joe McGinniss is explaining his raison d'etre to the local capo, who also happens to own the soccer team McGinniss will be following. McGinniss explains that he has forfeited a $1 million fee to write a book about ``Mr. O.J. Simpson'' in order to spend
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SPINNING A MIRACULOUS TALE
The Boston Globe
; Joe McGinnis has not been able to return to Castel di Sangro, the small, mountaintop village in Italy's Abruzzo, since documenting the "miracolo" of its soccer team. Fortunately for the Williams College soccer team, and the name of good sense, a bit of Castel di Sangro has been able to come to
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Just Penalty-Kick Me
The Washington Post
; THE MIRACLE OF CASTEL DI SANGRO By Joe McGinniss Little, Brown. 407 pp. $25 The initial premise of "The Miracle of Castel di Sangro" may or may not seem inviting. Joe McGinniss, famous journalist, who spent time covering the O.J. Simpson trial, is looking for "a fresh passion." He finds himself in
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WHEN ALL OF LIFE HINGES ON A SOCCER MATCH.(Books)(Review)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Steve Galpern The Miracle of Castel di Sangro By Joe McGinniss. Little Brown, 416 pages, $25. In an old SCTV skit parodying public television pledge drives, station manager Guy Caballero threatens viewers with a fate worse than Lawrence Welk reruns if they don't send in money. Sneering
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ON BOOKS.(Books)(On Books)
The Washington Times
; On Wednesday, the final of the European Champions' soccer tournament will be played in Barcelona, Spain, between Manchester United and Bayern Munich. There will be no Italian team playing this year, the Manchester side having beaten Milan's Juventus club in the semifinal round. But I am still
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THE TALK IN FOOTBALL
Evening Standard - London
; ... 1 million advance from the OJ Simpson trial to go and live in Castel di Sangro. We'd focus on the Italian countryside." Good news for the Castel di Sangro tourist board. League want last laugh TALK of the Premier League taking control of the England football ...
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THE TALK IN FOOTBALL.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ... 1 million advance from the OJ Simpson trial to go and live in Castel di Sangro. We'd focus on the Italian countryside. Good news for the Castel di Sangro tourist board. League want last laugh TALK of the Premier League taking control of the England football ...
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Reader may get a kick out of sports `Miracle'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. By Joe McGinniss. Little, Brown. 416 pages. $25. Well into this story of a provincial soccer team that improbably scaled the heights of the sport in a land where the game has a more devoted following than Catholicism, I began thinking I had mistakenly picked up a
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