Author: Megan Cooley PetersonPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515719960
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
"Describes a variety of trivia facts about soccer"--
Author: Ole KönneckeMyths and Facts about Football
Author: Patric AnderssonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381525X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This book presents accounts of economic and psychological analyses of association football (or “soccer” as it is popularly known in the USA). As football is widely accepted to be the world’s most popular sport, the case for scientific investigation of its characteristics is self-evident. As the contributions to this book demonstrate, the game of football offers an ideal opportunity to empirically investigate a wide range of broad issues, for example: behavioural decision-making; judgmental forecasting; motivation; game-theoretic models of strategic choice; competition and labour markets. Are teams more likely to concede a goal after having just scored? Does the team going first in a penalty shoot-out have an advantage? Should goal-keepers dive or stay put for penalty kicks? Do referees make decisions consistently? Why do fans like their teams? What factors influence the career of footballers? How well can experts predict football matches? How accurate are prediction markets? How does the stock-market react to match outcomes? These questions and others are addressed in this book. A particular focus is the investigation of popular conceptions—and misconceptions—about football. Of interest to psychologists, behavioural economists and football enthusiasts with an analytic approach to understanding the game, this book brings together contributions from a range of academic disciplines and will stimulate further research into football and the intriguing insights into behaviour it offers. See feature article in The Independent, October 8th, 2008: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/fact-or-fiction-form-in-football-954440.html Listen to interview with Patric Andersson on Swedish National Radio http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/P1/program/index.asp?ProgramID=1302 Read Chris Charles’s blog on BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chrischarles/2008/10/lies_damned_lies_and_statictic.html
Fantastic Football Facts
Author: Nick CallowPublisher: Virgin Books
ISBN: 9780753509876
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Inprove your knowledge! Amaze your friends! Settly any pub argument! Fantastic Football Facts is packed full of facsinating feats, humorous anecdotes and entertaining trivia about the beautiful game. Featuring such topics as 'The Greatest Comebacks', 'Bizarre Injuries', 'Goal-scoring Feats', 'Classic Fantasy Xis' and many more. Fantastic Football facts is the essential book for any football fan.
The Soccer Book
Author: DKPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744058392
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Whether you want to bend it like Beckham or dribble like Ronaldinho, The Soccer Book is the ultimate visual guide to soccer skills, rules, tactics, and coaching, illustrating every aspect of every variant of the sport more clearly, and in more detail, than any other book has done before.
Soccer
Author: Michael HurleyPublisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1410951103
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Shares facts about soccer, including who the oldest professional soccer team is, who the youngest person to play in the World Cup is, and which team has won the World Cup the most times.
First Source to Soccer
Author: Danielle S. HammelefPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496663063
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
First Source to Soccer shows kids the growing sport of soccer. From equipment to training tips and positions, kids will be excited by stunning photographs and engaging text.
What You Think You Know About Football is Wrong
Author: Kevin MoorePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472955684
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Our view of football will never be the same again... Written by a world-respected football historian, this football history/gift title reveals the global game's greatest myths and untruths. Football has been completely mythologized and many of the things football fans think they know about football and its history turn out not to be true. We want to believe the myths, and so they become accepted. So much football writing is not properly researched, and so the myths get repeated... again and again and again. Backed up by the highest level of academic research yet written in an accessible, mass-market style, the book will explore the truth behind many accepted myths. For example, did you know: - The Germans took football to Brazil, not the English - Rugby and not football could quite easily have been the world's leading sport - There are gay professional players ....and always have been! - Goalkeepers should not dive for penalties - Football hooliganism did not begin in England - Shirt colours do make a difference - Cambridge and not Sheffield is the home of the oldest football club in the world - Arsenal should not be in the Premier League... they cheated to be there - The Dynamo Kiev team were not executed after beating a German SS team in 1941 - England did not win the World Cup fairly in 1966 ... but not in the way you think! Written by Kevin Moore, the founding director of the National Football Museum (the world's leading football museum), this thoroughly researched and authoritative book will debunk more than 50 of the greatest myths surrounding football.
Author: George SullivanBaseball
Author: Michael HurleyPublisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1410951146
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Presents facts about baseball players, records, achievements, and crowds, revealing such information as the tallest player in baseball history and unique athlete superstitions.
