World Football Stars


Book Description

'World Football Stars' features 90 top current players from around the world. Packed with fascinating facts, stunning photographs and all the vital statistics, this pocket guide will keep kids and grown-ups quiet for hours.




The World's Greatest Soccer Players


Book Description

Describes the achievements and career statistics of soccer's greatest stars.




Stars of World Soccer


Book Description

The best-selling guide to today’s most exciting players, completely revised and updated Here are the best of the best, from legends like Messi and Ronaldo to dynamic newcomers like Kylian Mbappé. This lively book features short biographies of some twenty-eight stars in all—goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and attackers. With the same action-packed photos and colorful graphics that fans have come to expect from the critically acclaimed World Soccer Legends series, Stars of World Soccer shows what it takes to be at the top of the game. Publisher's note: A previous printing of this book contained an editorial error on pages 52–53 that has since been corrected.




Encyclopedia of World Football


Book Description




World Football Club Crests


Book Description

An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests. Why is there a devil shown on the crest of Manchester United? Which club's crest motto is 'To Dare Is To Do'? And whose emblem depicts a bear and a strawberry tree? From the seahorses of Newcastle United to the royal crown of Real Madrid, via the riveting hammers of West Ham United, Valencia's famous bat design and German club St Pauli's unofficial skull-and-crossbones emblem, there is a story behind every crest, a tale of identity. Covering more than 200 clubs from 20 different leagues, World Football Club Crests explores the design, meaning and symbolism of the game's most famous club crests to reveal why the badges look as they do. This carefully curated collection charts the continuing evolution of the designs and describes the changing styles, varied influences and remarkable controversies that have shaped football's most iconic crests. These important symbols of football heraldry will never be viewed in the same way again.




Pro Football's Stars of the Defense


Book Description

Provides information and statistics about the fastest, strongest, and hardest-hitting tacklers in the NFL, from the Indianapolis Colts' Dwight Freeney to the New Orleans Saints' Darren Sharper.







Fear and Loathing in World Football


Book Description

Football has played a key role in shaping and cementing senses of identity throughout the world. The nature of intra-nation hostility, which may be based in football or used as a theatre for antagonisms, is analysed in this work.




The Little Book of Football Legends


Book Description

Written by football fan and statistician Graham Betts, "The Little Book of Football Legends" is part of the fantastic "Legends of Sport" series featuring Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket and Grand Prix. It is packed with 4 page profiles of 30 of the world's most admired and revered footballers. "The Little Book of Football Legends" includes key statistics about each legend, illustrated with some of the best known photographs of them together with a fascinating profile of their career. Featuring such greats as Pele, Maradona, Dalglish, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho, this is a great look at the legends of world football.




Stars of Women's Soccer


Book Description

"World Soccer Legends series presents "Stars of Women's Soccer," featuring a collection of the best female players from around the world"--