The World Cup: The Complete History

by TerryCrouch (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $5.74

  Four years ago, the first edition of Aurum's World cup history was a commercial success: the first book into the market, to give a truly encyclopaedic guide to the premier football tournament. Now it is republished in a fully updated edition in good time for the finals of 2006. The book is notable for its remarkable comprehensiveness. It features: a separate chapter for every competition; every single result of every match; every single player in every team; and a detailed round-up of the entire progress of each tournament. For this new edition there is a completely new chapter on the 2002 competition, and also a further section detailing all the results in the qualifying phase for the 2006 tournament. With 2006 marking the 40th anniversary of England's historic World Cup victory, there will be massive interest in the tournament. There could be no more comprehensive and reasonably-priced companion to it for any armchair viewer.

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $3.21

  In the pages of this encyclopaedic book is everything anyone could ever want to know about the World Cup, from the very first finals in Uruguay in 1930 to the last qualifying match for this year's tournament in South Africa. Whether you want to know Czechoslovakia's goalscorer in the 1962 final in Santiago, or the name of the Senegalese referee who officiated in Scotland's 1978 group match in Mendoza, Argentina, or the full details of David Beckham's free kick that secured England's place in Tokyo, this is the ultimate reference work to answer all your questions and supply every statistic. And, above all, it's a celebration of the beautiful game's premier occasion, as every four years the footballing nations come together, pitting the finest players of all against each other, for one of the greatest sporting events in the world. Here is Geoff Hurst in 1966, Pele in 1970, Gary Lineker in 1986 and Gascoigne in 1990 - as well as all the facts, the figures, the points tallies and the penalties, from every minute of World Cup football ever played.