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Jim Henderson

When the Secretary of the Football Association, Charles W.Alcock, wrote to the Glasgow Herald in 1870 expressing an interest in arranging matches between the best Scottish and English players, little could he have realised that his concept for regular international competition between the two nations would develop into the greatest sporting phenomenon in world history. Following a series of unofficial matches between England and Scotland at The Oval in London, the first-ever official international football match took place in Glasgow on 30th November 1872. Although the match ended in a goal-less draw, a number of 'firsts' were created in international football history. Fast-forward 134 years to the 27th June 2006. In the World Cup second round match between Brazil and Ghana in Dortmund, Germany, the Brazilian striker Ronaldo scored the opening goal to create a new goalscoring record in the competition. This was the player's 15th goal in World Cup tournaments, a feat which...

Richard Williams

In eleven chapters on ten enigmas (plus one forgotten 'nearly man' who makes it to the bench), Richard Williams unravels the fact, legend and myth of the shirt number that encapsulates everything that excites about the beautiful game. It covers: Puskas of Hungary in the '50s; Pele of Brazil and Gianni Rivera of Italy in the '60s; Platini of France in the '70s; Diego Maradona of Argentina in the '80s; Baggio and Zidane in the '90s. The most magical supremely talented footballers of the post-war period have all worn the Number 10 shirt.

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Football, soccer, fussball, futebol, futbol, voetball - whatever we call it, it's the same beautiful game. For many of us it is quite simply the greatest game on Earth. Its popularity has spread across the globe to every tiny island and remote wilderness. It is a game for everybody. The love of the game brings people together - whether it is to play it, watch it or just endlessly debate the referees' decisions! Rich and poor, boys and girls, young and old, everyone can play the game. Best of all, you don't need any fancy equipment. All you need is a ball... This guide to the beautiful game has it all - from the history of the game to the anatomy of a footballer, the greatest teams to the most famous players, the most prestigious competitions to the die-hard fans. However, football is an ever-changing game. Every effort has been made to verify all facts and statistics - they are correct at time of going to press but may be subject to change at any future time.

Tim Mielke

Do you want to know how supplement manufacturers can legally deceive you into buying lower grade supplements? Are you completely confused when you read the ingredient labels on supplements? Do you want to know which supplements actually work and have been proven effective in their proper dose? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then The Book of Supplement Secrets may save you thousands of dollars in the long run when purchasing your nutritional supplements! The fact is, certain nutritional supplements work! Some have been proven effective over and over again, both in the laboratory and in the real world. The key is that you need to know what you're really buying. You need to educate yourself! I have outlined some of the most important and most effective supplements to help you maximize your body's potential. What you may not know is that there are guidelines for each one that are usually not mentioned. If you don't follow the...

Book Description Beijing 798 is a study in contrast--one location, two milieu, fifty years apart. Reflecting on art, architecture, and society, the images and texts in this book offer a microcosm of the radical social and cultural changes that haveswept through Beijing (and for that matter China) over the last 50 years. East German-designed military factory turned contemporary art and culture center, Beijing 798 is captured in 200 vintage black and white images of the industrial space and its programs at the height of the revolutionary milieu of the 1950s, and also through an equal number of color photographs of a radically different milieu--50 years later in the present. In the contrasting images of the past--model workers, Great Leap Forward parades, East German state visits, Big Character Posters --and today's images--contemporary art exhibitions, rock and roll concerts, artist studios, galleries, and restaurants--this book bears witness to the birth and becoming...

H. J. Anderson

Everything you wanted to know about the Canada Cup, the predecessor of the World Cup of Hockey. The Canada Cup saw the birth of international hockey involving NHL players. Following the Summit Series in 1972 and 1974, the world would finally see the natios of Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, the Soviet Union, Sweden, the United States and West Germany compete with all their best players for the first time. The Canada Cup gave us some of the greatest games and never-to-be-forgotten moments in hockey histor.

Seamus O'Coughlin

The 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California, literally introduced winter sports, particularly ice hockey, to the American public through television. During the average minute the Olympics were on the air, 26.1% of homes with sets (black and white) were tuned in. Twenty million Americans watched the nationally televised game between the U.S. and Russia on Saturday afternoon, February 27; more than the combined audience of all other programs on the air at the same time. "Squaw Valley Gold" tracks the struggle over control of amateur hockey in the United States from the world tournament at the 1920 Olympic Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium to America's first gold medal in Olympic ice hockey, a largely misunderstood and forgotten period in the country's sports history. The Squaw Valley Winter Games were known as the Hollywood Olympics. Walt Disney programmed the pageantry and invited his Hollywood friends to the party. Europeans fretted and fumed over the...

Colin Jose

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Robert Cowser

Book DescriptionAt the age of thirty, Bob Cowser, Jr., is leading a happy life as a husband, father, and English professor in upstate New York. But he misses the exhilaration he felt as a young man when he took the field for high school football games. In what is every Monday morning quarterback's fantasy, Bob Cowser, Jr., revisits his days as a football star by joining the Watertown Red and Black, the country's oldest semi-professional football team. With the hesitant blessing of his wife, Cowser drivesthe lonely sixty miles to try out for the team in Watertown, New York, a former mill town of soldiers, corrections officers, and blue-collar workers that is a far cry from his leafy campus. Over the next five months he will make this journey many more times as the Red and Black weathers everything from team feuds to agonizing losses to the deployment of some of its players to war. From the first kickoff, "Professor" realizes that he will have to work hard to earn the respect of his...