Soccer stories : anecdotes, oddities, lore, and amazing feats
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書誌事項
Soccer stories : anecdotes, oddities, lore, and amazing feats
（A bison book）
University of Nebraska Press, c2010
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-389)
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Arguably the world's most popular sport, soccer has its own colorful lore, still little known in a nation only now beginning to give the game its due. This book offers the perfect opportunity to catch up on soccer's rich history-and to discover some of the funniest, most ironic, outlandish, and tragic stories ever to come out of the world of sports. Taking readers as far afield as the Faeroe Islands, Thailand, Madagascar, Belarus, Bhutan, and the North Pole, the selections in Soccer Stories range from the strange (Brazilian players paid in cattle by their cash-strapped club) to the wild (the Mexican prison warden who threw open all the cell doors in celebration of a World Cup victory) to the comical (the referee who ejected himself). Here is the plane crash that wiped out the Italian team on the eve of its fifth straight national championship; the spiteful African club that scored 149 goals against itself in one game; and the youngster who banked a shot into the goal off a passing seagull. As lively as it is informative, Soccer Stories will engage fans of all levels.
目次
Introduction1. Everyone, Everywhere2. History3. World Cup4. Misbehavior5. Soccer, War, and Peace 6. America7. Referees8. Coaches9. Superlatives10. Snafus11. Tragedies12. Only in SoccerBibliographic Essay
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