{"product_id":"three-stars-jan-mauro-9798180847157","title":"Three Stars: The Complete History of the Argentina National Football Team - From the 1930 Final to Maradona, Messi, and Three World Cups","description":"For one hundred years, Argentina chased a feeling no trophy could guarantee. On a December night in Qatar, they finally caught it.\u003cbr\u003eEveryone remembers the ending - Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup, a whole nation pouring into the streets. But the story of Argentine football is not a highlight reel. It is a century of genius and heartbreak, of teams that played the most beautiful football on earth and still went home empty-handed. To understand why 2022 made a country weep, you have to understand everything that came before it.\u003cbr\u003eThree Stars tells the complete story, chapter by chapter, from the very beginning to the eve of the title defense. It connects the dots most fans never see: how a 1930 final loss shaped a national identity, how Diego Maradona carried a wounded country on his back in 1986, why three lost finals in three years almost broke a generation, and how an unfancied coach named Lionel Scaloni built the team that ended the wait forever.\u003cbr\u003eInside, you'll discover how Argentina invented its own romantic style of football and what it cost them; the full story of 1978 and 1986; the long drought of near-misses and penalty heartbreaks; the Messi paradox and why his country once turned on him; how the 2021 Copa América at the Maracanã unlocked everything; Qatar 2022 told in full; and a record sixteen Copa América titles and twenty-three trophies in all.\u003cbr\u003eWhether you cried in 2022 or you are just trying to understand why the rest of the world did, this is the one book that puts the whole story in order - the players, the rivalries, the systems, and the soul of the most dramatic football nation on earth.\u003cbr\u003eThree stars on the shirt. One hundred years to earn them. This is how it happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jan Mauro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180847157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Jan Mauro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874720723199,"sku":"9798180847157","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-stars-jan-mauro-9798180847157","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}