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Now You Know Soccer

1 Jun 2009

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?
soccer miscellanea

Authors

Doug Lennox

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
796.33402
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781770704077 9781554884162
LCCN
GV943.2
LCCN Item number
L45 2009eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (197 p.)
Published in
Canada
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00225180 (OCoLC)666231640 (CaOOCEL)433161
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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