Soccer Stories
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 trag...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:unpresssamples-1062 2023-11-12T04:23:03+01:00 Soccer Stories Risolo, Donn 2010-10-01T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/unpresssamples/58 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/unpresssamples/article/1062/viewcontent/RAHEJA.pdf unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/unpresssamples/58 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/unpresssamples/article/1062/viewcontent/RAHEJA.pdf University of Nebraska Press -- Sample Books and Chapters Arts and Humanities text 2010 ftunivnebraskali 2023-10-30T09:31:18Z 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. Text North Pole University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL North Pole Warden ENVELOPE(-146.617,-146.617,-86.000,-86.000) |
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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 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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