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Now You Know Soccer
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Series: Now You Know, Book 14
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ISBN13: 9781554884162
Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd
Published: Jun 1 2009
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Known around the world as football, soccer is the world's most watched and played sport. Now Doug Lennox, the striker of Q&A, scores with a pitch full of tidbits that delivers the goods on Pelé, Maradona, Beckham, Zidane, and other superstars, as well as the history, traditions, and rules of the game. Doug has compiled a World Cup of trivia about a truly universal phenomenon that has legions of passionate, and sadly sometimes violent, fans.
- How did soccer originate?,
- Who was the first soccer player to score a hat trick in a World Cup final?
- What was the largest attendance ever for a soccer match?
- What is the technical area?
- Where was the world's first soccer club formed?
- What was the first movie ever made about soccer?
- Where was the first World Cup held?
- What are the Laws of the Game?
- What were the 10 worst losses of life in soccer history?
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