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    Total Football: Latin American Soccer in Alabama
    Total Football: Latin American Soccer in Alabama
    Total Football: Latin American Soccer in Alabama
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    Total Football: Latin American Soccer in Alabama

    By Matt Zeigler

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    Matt Zeigler's Total Football: Latin American Soccer in Alabama is a thrilling photo book that captures the spectacular action and drama of the world's most popular sport. The author, a USA Book News 2010 Best Books Award Winner for photography, depicts the skill and dedication of Alabama's Latin American immigrants in 2011. It was a farewell season brought on by HB 56, the harshest anti-immigration law in America. The intense competition, pride, dedication and love for soccer is illustrated with 82 full-color images. Zeigler freeze-frames the fast-paced tempo of soccer to reveal goalies, defenders, dirty work, headers, high-foot kicks, loose balls, playmakers, strikers, and wingers. In addition to sharp skills and pure athleticism, the images portray soccer as a refuge from exodus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatt Zeigler
    Release dateNov 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311975522
    Total Football: Latin American Soccer in Alabama
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    Matt Zeigler

    Former Marine Matt Zeigler worked eight years as a writer and photojournalist in the newspaper industry before embarking on an author's path. During the 1990s he traveled extensively throughout the Southeast covering the greatest athletes of American sports. Zeigler, a 1993 graduate of Troy University, has also published College Football Schemes and Techniques; Wild Alabama; Wild Alabama: Winter Haven; Wild Alabama: The American Robin; Sports Shooter: A Photographer's Story; and 1990s NFL Flashback.

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      Total Football - Matt Zeigler

      Introduction

      Most Latin American immigrants came to Alabama from Mexico; hardworking laborers that flocked to Alabama seeking a better life north of the border. Others came from elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean Islands: including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

      Work, even during bad economic times, was plentiful in Alabama. There were plenty of large farms where row crops had to be harvested; or fruit to be picked from orchards. Both skilled and unskilled construction workers also found gainful employment. Immigrants from the business and entertainment sector, and linguist working as interpreters, would also find prosperity amongst a loose community of an estimated 100,000 Latin American immigrants.

      Their experiences in Alabama at the beginning of the 21st Century was similar to that of European immigrants who settled in the Northeast a century earlier. They arrived with meager assets, speaking little or no English, in search of the American Dream, or at least a better way of life. Immigrants from both periods were welcomed in order to fill labor shortages. German, Italian, Scottish and other Europeans were enticed by the Industrial Revolution, whereas Mexican, Salvadoran and other Latinos came to Alabama and elsewhere in the Southeast to sustain the agriculture industry.

      Both Europeans and Latinos also lived similar lives after arrival. They assimilated into American culture, while at the same time they retained their own ethnic identities. From Monday to Friday, or Saturday in some cases, they worked hard at their jobs performing manual labor. Saturdays, if not a work day, were spent doing domestic chores such as shopping and washing clothes. And then there was Sunday……

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