Who's scored the most goals in the history of football? (and, no, it's not Pele) Who is the dirtiest player in Champions League history? What do Harry Kane and North Korea have in common? And which creature is the most common Premier League mascot? The Match of the Day magazine Footy Facts & Stats book is bursting with thousands - literally thousands - of brilliant facts and amazing stats from the world of football. It contains everything you need to know about the game's biggest legends, the most iconic moments and the greatest tournaments. Get ready for a trivia overload from the Premier League, Champions League, Football League, the biggest and best leagues from around the world, the WSL, the FA Cup, World Cup, European Championships and much, much more. Discover all the fantastic facts about your biggest heroes, the biggest clubs and the biggest icons ever to have played the beautiful game. Dive into the amazing world of football's incredible record-breakers - we're talking big money transfers, net-busting strikers and red-card collecting hardmen. Oh, and learn how to say 'football' in every language! This, from the Match of the Day magazine team, is the ultimate guide to the wonderful - and sometimes wacky - world of football trivia!

Build your sports skills with the Sports Academy series. Looking to take up a new sport? Or just thinking about ways to keep fit and healthy? This book is a great introduction to all the important football skills you'll need. Full of skills tips and illustrations showing key techniques, you'll discover everything - from scoring to defending. The series Sports Academy covers rules, equipment and major competitions through specially commissioned, step-by-step illustrations that clearly shows skills and techniques needed for a sport. Great for readers aged 9+

Shy boy Amadeo reigns supreme at table football in his local cafe. Taking on all comers he is one of "the unbeatables" with his loyal team of tiny foosballers. But there's another "unbeatable" in town. Aggrieved by his only ever defeat at the hands of Amadeo in a foosball match when they were kids, Flash the town bully returns to seek revenge. Not only does he destroy the foosball table, but he challenges Amadeo to a game of actual football. Amadeo has never played real football - and Flash, with his insatiable quest for glory, has subsequently risen to become the world's most famous soccer star. With the future of the village at stake and his foosballers scattered, the situation looks hopeless for Amadeo. Unless he can recruit the help of his eccentric fellow villagers and the girl he loves, Lara, to take on the world's best football team captained by his nemesis Flash. And unless the foossballers can be reunited. "It'll be like Barcelona against a non-league team with an injury crisis," predicts Lara. What nobody predicts, however, is how Amadeo's foosballers will affect the game...The Unbeatables novel is the ultimate fantasy football story.Expanding upon the original movie, the novel includes additional adventures and characters. Written for young adults (and not so young adults), the book is a scintillating, action-packed 90 minutes of end-to-end incident, comedic flair, goalmouth scrambles and dubious off the ball challenges on the ethos of the modern game

In this heartwarming and candid memoir, US national soccer team goalkeeper Tim Howard does something he would never do on a soccer field: he drops his guard. Howard opens up for the first time about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette Syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world's premier goalkeepers. Howard managed to keep his condition in check well enough to be drafted by Major League Soccer right out of high school. After a successful seventeen-year professional soccer career, Howard became an overnight star during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. His heroic performance in goal for the United States against Belgium, in which he saved an astonishing fifteen shots-the most for any goalkeeper in a World Cup game-made him a household name as well as a trending internet meme. In the course of 120 minutes, Howard went from a player known mainly by soccer fans to an American icon, loved by millions for his dependability, daring, and humility. In this uplifting memoir adapted for young readers, Howard shares his remarkable journey from a challenging childhood in which he was raised by a single mother who instilled in him a love of sports and a devout Christian faith that helped him deal with the onset of Tourette's in fifth grade. This book includes an 8-page full-color photo insert and a poster on the other side of the book jacket.

This title describes the record-breaking athletes and teams of soccer. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Impossible to Break special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of soccer's records and the athletes who set them.

Meet the most legendary clubs in the game. From the storied Liverpool, to the star-studded Real Madrid, these are the clubs setting new standards of teamwork year after year. Learn about each team's history, and their greatest accomplishments along the way. Get to know the coaches and stars, from Barca's attacking duo of Messi and Suarez, to Man City's brilliant manager Pep Guardiola and his winning strategy. Full of exciting colour photos, The World's Greatest Clubs includes teams from all the top leagues, including England's Premier League, Spain's La Liga, and Italy's Serie A. It will be an indispensable companion for young soccer fans everywhere, regardless of their allegiance.

Goading the goalkeeper as he runs up for a goal kick. Your grandad telling you not to use the words from the songs in front of your grandma. Capturing the green of the pitch through the bodies. There's something magical about your first football match. Use this book to share your own nostalgic memories with your little one.

This title introduces soccer fans to the history of one of the top MLS clubs, Columbus Crew SC. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

This title introduces soccer fans to the history of one of the top MLS clubs, the Portland Timbers. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Learn how the top football stars of all time grew up and conquered the sport. This guide follows fourteen of the best men's and women's players from their first childhood encounter with association football - whether at the school gym or a pickup game in a vacant lot - to their first appearance in a top-division match or their first international cap. For every one of them, it was a journey with its share of both tragedy and triumph. Did you know that . . . . . . as a boy, Pele practiced with a newspaper-stuffed sock or a grapefruit, because he couldn't afford a proper football?. . . Mia Hamm discovered the sport of football as a toddler in Florence, Italy, where her father, a U.S. Air Force pilot, was stationed? . . . at age ten, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency that threatened to end his football career - until Barca offered to pay for his treatment? Illustrated with rare photos of stars-to-be on and off the field, Before They Were Stars is sure to entertain and inspire any budding soccer legend. Fans can learn more about their favourite players with other World Soccer Legends series books, such as Stars of Women's Soccer: 2nd Edition, Stars of World Soccer, Neymar, Messi, and Alex Morgan.

Do you want to get on board with all the best Albion content there is to get? Then the Albion Annual is the book for you. Full of pictures, interviews, quizzes and posters, the Albion Annual gets you as close to the Baggies as if you were in the dressing room yourself! Don't miss out, whatever you do. Alex wouldn't be very happy!

Jurgan Klinsmann: deadly goal-poacher, Tottenham Hotspur hero, world champion. After helping to beat England in the 1990 World Cup, the German striker came to play for Tottenham Hotspur - but it took a long time for Spurs fans to grow to love him. Yet with his competitive spirit, humour and his amazing talent for conjuring a goal from thin air, he quickly became a North London legend. This is his exciting story.