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by Daniel Grady
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Para los uruguayos, Diego Forlán es un ídolo. El delantero del Inter de Milán es el mayor goleador de la historia de su país. Dos veces ganó la Bota de Oro, el prestigioso premio que se entrega al mejor jugador de Europa. En el 2010 compartió el mejor gol de la Copa del Mundo, y fue seleccionado...
by Paco Elzaurdia
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
A Cuauhtémoc Blanco simplemente le fascina jugar fútbol y lo demuestra en el campo. Ha sido parte del balón pie profesional mexicano desde 1992, y desde entonces, en uno de los jugadores más famosos del mundo. Fue miembro del equipo Club América de México, Valladolid en España, y Los Chicago...
by Paco Elzaurdia
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Rafael Márquez es un futbolista con fanáticos en todo el mundo, desde México hasta Barcelona. No le sorprende la competencia dura en campeonatos y Copas Mundiales, y se ha convertido en pieza clave de cada equipo de los que ha hecho parte. Conozca el recorrido de Rafa hasta la cima del mundo del...
by Jorge Arturo Miranda Bravo
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Andrés Guardado es toda una figura del fútbol nacional mexicano. Desde muy temprana edad, se levantó para convertirse rápidamente en una de las estrellas más grandes del balón pie actual. Ya sea dentro o fuera de la cancha, a los amantes del fútbol les gusta seguir cada uno de sus movimientos....
by Andy Mitten
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A celebration of the classic football derby matches. From the Celtic–Rangers rivalry and Tyneside derby to the biggest global clashes from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, journalist Andy Mitten uses the fans' own words and stories to illuminate the conflicts, tensions, histories and culture behind these...
Thirty-One Nil
On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
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 2014's World Cup in Brazil. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: their careers, their families, even their...
by Danny Baker, Danny Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
At last! The award-winning Baker & Kelly bring you the most entertaining, radical and unreliable football book ever published. The Two Dannys argue the toss, spill the beans and chew that fat about everything and anything from the biggest questions down to stuff they have frankly invented themselves.
Which...
by Aidan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The fate of sporting underdogs has long stirred the passions of many a follower. There is something pleasing about watching apparently ‘ordinary’ people taking on the sporting elite. Teachers, accountants, fishermen and waiters – they play for the love of football and the pride in their nation.For...
by Kelly Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
All Kelly Smith ever wanted to be was a footballer. Blessed with brilliant talent which she honed with hours of practice, it was soon clear to all who saw her that Kelly was the best women's footballer that this country had ever produced. Yet for this shy girl from Watford, it would be a long and...
That Night
A Decade On, The Story Of Australian Football’s Greatest Night
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Wednesday, November 16, 2005. 80,000 people at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, millions around the country couldn't believe what they had witnessed.
The Socceroos, after a 32 year wait had qualified for World Cup.
32 years of heartache, despair, and a sleeping giant of Australian sport...
The Lost Boys
Inside Football’s Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football's slave trade – the beautiful game turned ugly.
Talent-spotted by scouts,...
Manchester United 1907-11
The First Halcyon Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Manchester United may be world famous today, but back in 1907 the club had yet to win either the League Championship or the FA Cup. Things were to change dramatically over the following four seasons, during which time the club moved to Old Trafford under the management of Ernest Mangnall, and captured...
by Darren Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Eric Cantona's career at Old Trafford lasted only 5 years but its lasting impact is still being felt today. During that comparatively small span, Cantona's dedication and self-confidence enabled a club to emerge from over a quarter of a century of failure and self-doubt. Cantona's career before he...
by Michael Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
What links the studio-set for BBCs Match of the Day and the titlesequence of the comedy quiz-show They Think Its All Over? And whatconnects JK Rowlings Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and DavidBeckhams biography, My Side? In every case, football floodlights (or inRowlings case a magical Quidditch...