Oscar's Brazil: A Journey to the Heart of a Nation, its People, Places and Passion for the Game

by Oscar dos Santos Emboaba, Tom Watt

It's been a long wait: 2014 sees Brazil host a World Cup for the first time since 1950. It's been a welcome return for the world's greatest game to its spiritual home; the greatest football nation on earth. The national team binds a huge and disparate country together, inspiring hope, fear and joy across every age and social class with an intensity which, once witnessed, can never be forgotten. This will be a World Cup guaranteed to take the breath away. Brazil is a country the size of a continent unparalleled in the richness and variety of its geography and with a population of nearly 200 million drawn from an incredible mix of backgrounds, many of them concentrated in two of the world's great cities: Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Brazil has emerged as an international powerhouse on the 21st century stage, Brazilian culture, too - samba capoeira, carnival - is well on its way to conquering the globe.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2014

About the author

Oscar Dos Santos Emboaba Junior is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Chelsea in the English Premier League. He began his career as Sao Paulo FC where he won the national championship in 2008. He played for Internacional in Porto Alegre before moving to Chelsea in 2013. He represented Brazil at the London Olympics and will join the Selecao for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.