Once every four years the greatest players and teams from around the globe come together in a celebration of the beautiful game. Packed with colour, excitement, passion and drama the World Cup has the world glued to their television screens as the biggest names in football dazzle and wow on the ultimate stage.
The World Cup as World History uses football's premier event to analyze modern sports and world history. Bowman traces the history of a tournament that has become a global phenomenon that generates intense political, economic, and cultural interest and profound discussions about racial, ethnic, and gender identity in the contemporary era.
World Club Football Records is a net-bulging collection of standout football records, stats and trivia from around the globe. The triumphs and outstanding achievements from the Premier League, FA Cup, Spain's LaLiga, Germany's Bundesliga, the Champions League and Copa Libertadores, together with many other leading competitions worldwide, are ......
When Mum and Dad See Me Kick is a series of short stories profiling ten individuals who came to love football and how it changed their lives. The stories demonstrate that 'the Beautiful Game' is home to a diverse community of people from all walks of life, united by the call of football.
Unforgettable Soccer is a fun book about soccer. Rather than putting the magnifying glass on great champions and memorable matches, it instead examines the more obscure tales from soccer, rescuing incredible feats and masterful mistakes from oblivion-incredible feats such as the soccer player who scored all four goals in a game that ended 2-2.
Fasciae are a building network in our body that give us support, structure, and form. Whether a thigh looks tightly stretched or rather like jelly basically depends on the tone of the fibrous connective tissue--the fascia--which surrounds it. Therefore, we must train fasciae in addition to muscles. Only then do we have a well-formed and firm body ......
In 1965 West Ham United were the first side made up entirely of English players to win a major European trophy. This was the zenith of their European history, but other exciting campaigns were to come. These adventures were to be replicated, but without the pioneering magic the Hammers engendered; they nearly reached the sky, others just followed.
Dave Allenson, a security guard, stops Peter Hore from tearing down the net of the Iranian goal in the 1997 play-off against Australia, setting off an alternate timeline of Australian football. This book traces the course of "what if".