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Soccer stories [electronic resource]

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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 wh

Title Soccer stories [electronic resource] : anecdotes, oddities, lore, and amazing feats / Donn Risolo.
Publisher Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Creation Date c2010
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Everyone, Everywhere
2. History
3. World Cup
4. Misbehavior
5. Soccer, War, and Peace
6. America
7. Referees
8. Coaches
9. Superlatives
10. Snafus
11. Tragedies
12. Only in Soccer
Bibliographic Essay
Extent 1 online resource (404 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715751205171
MARC RECORDS
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