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“The impact Japan has had on the modern world is enormous. It occupies less than 1/300 of the planet's land area, yet at the height of its economic growth in the 1980s it wielded one-sixth of the planet's economic might, and remains the third ranking economy in the world.”
― Storia del Giappone
― Storia del Giappone
“In the 18th century Japan had the world's largest city, and world's most literate population.”
― Storia del Giappone
― Storia del Giappone
“Such class-based oddities gave English cricket a somewhat paradoxical reputation. It was at once popular and elite. It was exclusive yet, as a rare forum for gentry and commoners to interact, a source of social cohesion. Hence the historian G.M. Trevelyan’s famous claim that the French aristocrats would have spared themselves the guillotine if they had only played cricket with their serfs.”
― The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
― The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
“Pep had analysed Real Madrid in detail and, an hour and a half before the game, he got Messi, Xavi and Iniesta together: ‘You three against Lass and Gago have got the game. If you do it right, three against two, we’ve beaten them.’ Lass and Gago were going to find a third man to defend, Messi would position himself as a false striker in between the centre backs and those two.”
― Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
― Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
“Although he wanted an element of democracy within the group, with players using their initiative, making suggestions and keeping an open mind to new ideas, Guardiola did not delay in imposing a number of strict rules in his first few days in charge: such as insisting upon the use of Castilian and Catalan as the only languages spoken among the group, arranging a seating plan at meal times to encourage the players to mix and to prevent the team forming up into different cultural or national groups and cliques.”
― Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
― Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
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