Eight World Cups

Author : George Vecsey
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780805098495

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Eight World Cups by George Vecsey Pdf

"Full of humor and insight about sport and culture.... The pomp, glory, and great entertainment all get their due in Eight World Cups."—The Boston Globe Blending witty travelogue with action on the field—and shady dealings in back rooms—George Vecsey offers an eye-opening, globe-trotting account of eight World Cups. He immerses himself in the great national leagues, historic clubs, and devoted fans and provides his up-close impressions of charismatic soccer stars like Sócrates, Maradona, Baggio, and Zidane, while also chronicling the rise of the U.S. men's and women's teams. Vecsey shows how each host nation has made the World Cup its own, from the all-night street parties in Spain in 1982 to the roar of vuvuzelas in South Africa in 2010, as the game in the stadium is backed up by the game in the street. But the joy is sometimes undermined by those who style themselves the game's protectors.

Author : George Vecsey
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345517074

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Stan Musial by George Vecsey Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the biographical treatment he deserves. Stan Musial is the definitive portrait of one of the game’s best-loved but most unappreciated legends—told through the remembrances of those who played beside, worked with, and covered “Stan the Man” over the course of his nearly seventy years in the national spotlight. Away from the diamond, Musial proved a savvy businessman and a model of humility and graciousness toward his many fans in St. Louis and around the world. From Keith Hernandez’s boyhood memories of Musial leaving tickets for him when the Cardinals were in San Francisco to the little-known story of Musial’s friendship with novelist James Michener, Vecsey weaves an intimate oral history around one of the great gentlemen of baseball’s Greatest Generation.

Author : Tyler Omoth
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781474792981

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The World Cup by Tyler Omoth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : S&S Learning Materials
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781770781719

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Reading with Canadian Celebrities Gr. 4-8 by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Whitfield
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781791100513

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World Cup by David Whitfield Pdf

The World Cup is an international competition that pits the best soccer teams from around the world against each other to determine the world champion. This tournament is held only once every four years. Learn more about this fascinating championship in World Cup, a title in the We Are the Champions series. Each title in the series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

Author : Filip Bondy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1458759679

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Chasing the Game by Filip Bondy Pdf

Filip Bondy is a columnist for the New York Daily News and author of Tip-Off, among other books. He lives in New York.

Author : Clive Gifford,Dee Phillips
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778737780

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Soccer World Cup by Clive Gifford,Dee Phillips Pdf

Take to the field as Soccer World Cup plunges readers into the excitement of professional soccer in stadiums across the globe. Young soccer fans will love this absorbing look into the highest level of competitive soccer in the world.

Author : Chris Hawkes
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 1787392198

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ICC Cricket World Cup England and Wales 2019 by Chris Hawkes Pdf

ICC Cricket World Cup England 2019: The Official Book is a celebration of the world's most important 50-over cricket tournament, the World Cup. Eight teams will be joining hosts England in the summer 2019 trying to prise loose the grip on the trophy, enjoyed by Australia (they have been world champions four of the last five times). Eleven venues will stage the 48 matches across England and Wales, from Taunton and Cardiff to Headingley and Chester-le-Street between 30 May and 14 July. This book contains everything fans will need, from venue guides to detailed information on every team in the finals, key players, playing strengths, coaches, past form and a prediction of teams' hopes of success. In addition to the fill-in ICC Cricket World Cup England 2019 fixture schedule, famous games are recalled in special features, together with biographies of the men most likely to light up the tournament. The Cricket World Cup's glorious history and tournament records are also fully covered making ICC Cricket World Cup England 2019: The Official Book essential reading for all fans interested in one-day cricket in its longer format.ed making ICC Cricket World Cup England 2019: The Official Book essential reading for all fans interested in one-day cricket in its longer format.ed making ICC Cricket World Cup England 2019: The Official Book essential reading for all fans interested in one-day cricket in its longer format.ed making ICC Cricket World Cup England 2019: The Official Book essential reading for all fans interested in one-day cricket in its longer format.

Author : Sam Berkeley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0244672504

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the World Cup Volume Eight: 2018 by Sam Berkeley Pdf

Books on the World Cup fall into two types: some are weighty, detailed and reasonably accurate but inaccessible, for the most hardcore of fans only; others are funny, easy to read and a great introduction but pack little punch and leave plenty of stones unturned. There is nothing in the middle. But why not? What if there were something which both World Cup veterans and novices could pick up and enjoy, with all the info and all the drama, all the stats and all the weirdest incidents? There is now. This series of books looks at every single match in more detail than ever before but it also searches out the fascinating, the extraordinary, the memorable, and brings them out of the text, highlighting the pick of the action. This volume previews this summer's action in Russia and also includes all-time team selections for all the World Cup's most successful nations.

Author : Clemente A. Lisi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781538156445

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The FIFA World Cup by Clemente A. Lisi Pdf

The first complete history of the FIFA World Cup with a preview of the 2022 event in Qatar. Every four years, the world’s best national soccer teams compete for the FIFA World Cup. Billions of people tune in from around the world to experience the remarkable events unfolding live, both on and off the field. From Diego Maradona’s first goal against England at the 1986 World Cup to Nelson Mandela’s surprise appearance at the 2010 final in South Africa, these unforgettable World Cup moments have helped to create a global phenomenon. In The FIFA World Cup: A History of the Planet's Biggest Sporting Event, veteran soccer reporter Clemente A. Lisi chronicles the tournament from 1930 to today, including a preview of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Lisi provides vivid accounts of individual games, details the innovations that impacted the sport across the decades, and offers biographical sketches of greats such as Pelé, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi. In addition, Lisi includes needed, objective coverage of off-field controversies such as the FIFA corruption case, making this book the only complete and impartial history of the tournament. Featuring personal interviews and behind-the-scenes stories from the author’s many years attending and covering the World Cup, as well as stunning color photography, The FIFA World Cup is the definitive history of this global event.

Author : James Montague
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781408851593

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Thirty-One Nil by James Montague Pdf

WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS The story of the immense struggle to qualify for the World Cup, Thirty-One Nil roams from American Samoa to Zambia in a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football. In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war zone, Afghanistan take on Palestine in the first Asian qualifier for the World Cup. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: their careers, their families, even their lives. Yet, along with thousands of other footballers backed by millions of supporters, they all dream of snatching one of the precious 32 places at the finals; and so begins a three-year epic struggle – long before the usual suspects start their higher-profile qualifying campaigns under the spotlight. Named after the greatest victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualifiers have ever seen (Australia's 31-0 victory over American Samoa), Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey chasing a place at the 2014 World Cup Finals. It celebrates the part-time priests, princes and hopeless chancers who dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds stacked against them. It tells the story of teams who have struggled for their very existence through political and social turmoil, from which they will very occasionally emerge into international stardom. From the endlessly humiliated San Marino to lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed and fleet-footed players of Eritrea, in Thirty-One Nil James Montague gets intimately and often dangerously close to some of the world's most extraordinary teams, and tells their exceptional stories.

Author : Drew Sleep
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912918994

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World Cup Legends by Drew Sleep Pdf

Once every four years the greatest players and teams from around the globe come together in a celebration of the beautiful game. Packed with color, 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. From Pele and Maradonna to Ronaldo, Moore and Mpbappe, some of the most iconic names in the history of football are synonymous with the World Cup. In this book you'll find a host of fascinating features on the aforementioned legends as well as the Magnificent Magyars of the 1950's and the best side never to win the World Cup - the Cruyff inspired Dutch team of the 1970's. We will also bring you 50 of the greatest players to grace the tournament and take you on a journey back through some of the World Cup's most memorable moments.

Author : Brian Glanville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0571190812

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The Story of the World Cup by Brian Glanville Pdf

A history of football's World Cup from its inception in 1930 to the 1994 tournament in the USA, with accounts of individual games, behind-the-scenes stories, and character sketches of outstanding managers and players. Team line-ups and statistical summaries are included.

Author : Josh Chetwynd
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077109968

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Baseball in Europe by Josh Chetwynd Pdf

Though baseballs European ancestry is today a topic of considerable research interest, few realize just how extensive a history the modern game has on the Continent and British Isles. Organized by country, this heavily researched book delves into the history of baseball in 40 countries, describing both the efforts to spread the game and the culture of baseball peculiar to the places where it has flourished. Appendices cover topics from major leaguers who have played in European domestic leagues to a glossary of baseball terms in seven languages used in Europe.

Author : Nick Holt
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472110510

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Mammoth Book Of The World Cup by Nick Holt Pdf

An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2018 kick-off in Russia. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled 'greatest show on Earth', every tournament is covered with features on major stars and great games, as well as stories about some less celebrated names and quirky stats and intriguing essays. Holt's focus is very much on what takes place on the field, rather than how football is a mirror for economic corruption, or how a nation's style of play represents a profound statement about its people, or how a passion for football can lift underpaid, socially marginalised people out of poverty. From the best World Cups, in 1958 and 1970, to the worst, in 1962 and 2010, he looks behind the facts and the technical observations to the stories: the mysterious sins of omission; critical injuries to key players; and coaching U-turns. He explains how England's World Cup achievements under Sven-Göran Eriksson, far from being a national disgrace, were actually quite impressive, and looks at why Alf Ramsey didn't take Bobby Charlton off in 1970, but this is no parochial, jingoistic account. The book also asks why Brazil did not contribute in 1966, despite having won the previous two tournaments and going on to win the next one? Why the greatest players of their day did not always shine at the World Cup - George Best and Alfredo Di Stefano, for example, never even made it to the Finals. Why did Johann Cruyff not go to the 1978 World Cup? And why did one of Germany's greatest players never play in the World Cup? There are lots of tables, some filled with obvious, but necessary information, but others with more quirky observations. Alongside accounts of epic games, there are also brief biographies of all the great heroes of the World Cup.