Encyclopedia of the Fifa World Cup

Informationen zum Autor Tom Dunmore is a soccer writer and executive. In 2010, he was appointed as Vice-President of the Chicago Riot Soccer Club of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He publishes an award-winning global soccer culture blog, www.pitchinvasion.net, and he was an international soccer columnist for The Chicago Sports Weekly from 2007 to 2008. Klappentext The FIFA World Cup is the world's most-watched sporting event. A cumulative television audience of several billion people tuned in to the 2014 World Cup, and an estimated 700 million watched the finals. The Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the history of this incomparable event. Hundreds of entries cover players, coaches, officials, stadiums, overviews of each major country's performances, and more. Including an indispensable bibliography on the key World Cup texts, this volume is an essential reference for soccer fans, players, and researchers alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology Introduction Tournament Recaps THE ENTRIES A TO Z Appendix A:The FIFA World Cup: Dates, Hosts, Winners and Runners-Up Appendix B: The Golden Ball Appendix C: The Golden Shoe Appendix D: The Golden Glove Award Appendix E: The Best Young Player Award Appendix F: FIFA Fair Play Trophy Bibliography About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Donaldson, Tom Dunmore, Tom Donaldson Dunmore, Dunmore Tom
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2015
• EAN: 9780810887428
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-8742-8
• No. of pages: 406
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer, SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference, world cup, Reference works, Association football (Soccer), Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management, World Cups and World championships