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Goald! - Olympic Football: the road from 1900 to 2012 (Paperback)
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Goald! - Olympic Football: the road from 1900 to 2012 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R569
Discovery Miles 5 690
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Billions watch the Olympics, and follow the world's number one
sport- football. But how do these two 19th Century inventions fit
together? 'Goald!' tells the story of Olympic football from the
easy-going 1900's to London 2012, when over 160 countries aimed to
win medals. The world's original football tournament may be the
least known in Europe, but it helped change the game and introduced
teams and players of the highest quality; Uruguay, the 1920's
sensations, Puskas's Hungary. New African teams (Nigeria and
Cameroon) reached their peak at the Olympics. Klinsmann, Ronaldo,
Messi first drew a global audience at these tournaments. Read about
thirty tournaments where goals do mean gold. Three British
Olympians have contributed their personal experience to the book's
Foreword and its conclusion, which illustrates what membership of
Team GB can mean to footballers. In combining the two elements-
Olympics and football- 'Goald!' portrays each Olympics as a whole
from 1900 to 2012, before depicting every match up to the Final, in
each chapter. It weighs up the benefits and problems of including
this most popular team sport in the Olympics, showing the likely
effects of separating football from The Games. Amid the
controversies, within the UK and the world of sport, the book
offers the reader stories from the first ever football competition,
then and now- the stars, the matches, the unsung heroes. Judge for
yourself.
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