Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats

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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 ...

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Overview

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.

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Editorial Reviews

JP Dellacamera
"From conspiracy to controversy, this is a unique look at famous and not-so-famous incidents from world soccer. There's something here for all who love the game."

-JP Dellacamera, World Cup and Olympic soccer commentator

JP Dellacamera
“From conspiracy to controversy, this is a unique look at famous and not-so-famous incidents from world soccer. There’s something here for all who love the game.”—JP Dellacamera, World Cup and Olympic soccer commentator
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"Fans will get a kick out of Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore and Amazing Feats. . . . Read about highlights in soccer history from around the world, including Brazilian players paid in cattle, an African club that scored 149 goals against itself in one game and more."—Michelle J. Mills, Pasadena Star-News

— Michelle J. Mills

Pasadena Star-News - Michelle J. Mills
"Fans will get a kick out of Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore and Amazing Feats. . . . Read about highlights in soccer history from around the world, including Brazilian players paid in cattle, an African club that scored 149 goals against itself in one game and more."—Michelle J. Mills, Pasadena Star-News
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780803230149
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication date: 11/1/2010
  • Pages: 408
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

A longtime soccer writer, Donn Risolo served as ESPN/ABC’s chief researcher for coverage of the 1994 World Cup for matches at the Rose Bowl. He is the coauthor of The Wilson Guide to Soccer.
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Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Everyone, Everywhere 1

2 History 13

3 World Cup 51

4 Misbehavior 89

5 Soccer, War, and Peace 135

6 America 169

7 Referees 223

8 Coaches 247

9 Superlatives 259

10 Snafus 279

11 Tragedies 313

12 Only in Soccer 337

Bibliographic Essay 387

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 17, 2011

    Gooooaaaaall!!

    Page after page of interesting, funny, weird, silly, happy, sad stories about soccer. I was hoping to be entertained but I learned a lot, too. Even people who don't like soccer would like Soccer Stories.

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