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1) Soccer
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xviii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"This update to the comprehensive guide introduces you to all the soccer greats and up-and-comers whose moves you'll want to know. You'll find extensive coverage of women's soccer, including women's world cup, the NWSL, Women's Super League, and the UEFA Women's Championship, and get descriptions of various leagues around the globe, and the lowdown on where you can find soccer games and resources, online and elsewhere. Learn how soccer got to be the...
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"Think a soccer match begins with the opening kickoff? Think again! In this Sports Illustrated Kids book, go behind the scenes of a typical game day in professional soccer-from prepping the pitch and cleaning cleats to player escorts and jersey swaps. This fast-paced, fact-filled book will give soccer fans, young and old, a brand-new perspective on major league soccer"--
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376 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team"--
"Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at dawn, drive to the Miami Flames FC offices, try her hardest to leave a mark, go home, and repeat. But her routine is disrupted when a video of her in an altercation with the team's mascot goes viral. Rather than fire her, the team's owner-who happens to be her father-sends...
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436 pages, 4 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Lionel Messi ha vuelto a ser feliz. Y ¿para qué jugar al fútbol si no es para ser feliz? Con cuatro Champions League, la Copa América 2021, el récord de goles de un jugador para una selección sudamericana y el pase al PSG, el mejor futbolista del planeta ya le había insuflado nueva vida a su carrera, pero ahora además ha conquistado el único gran trofeo que le faltaba: la Copa del Mundo. Para conocer y comprender a esta figura extraordinaria,...
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Robot makers volume 2
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160 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"La Ion has joined his first robot soccer game--but there is something odd about his opponents' robot. This graphic novel unpacks the mechanical elements of a robot and the history of automatons"--
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417 pages ; 24 cm
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women--cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
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Tinpot and Proud by lifelong Crawley Town supporter, Steve Leake, covers important people who have helped establish Crawley Town as a Football League Club, from its conception in 1890, through 115 non-league years to the last twelve as an EFL League club. Seasons 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 are also covered in Part 2 through the "Thoughts of a lifelong fan" as previously published in the Crawley Observer and reflect the roller coaster ride of lower league...
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Having long been hailed as a future star of world soccer, Neymar has thrived under the pressure of expectation.
Already well on his way to becoming Brazil's all-time top scorer and a leading light in one of the greatest Barcelona teams in history, his legacy is already taking shape.
Updated to include all the action from the 2016/17 season and drawing on exclusive interviews with those who have known and worked with him, Neymar paints a compelling...
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A Youth Soccer Coach's Investigation into The Origins of Soccermainia
On July 10, 1999, 100,000 Americans, mostly women, did something they had not done before, at least not in such numbers. They showed up to watch a soccer match.
Their attendance at the 1999 Women's World Cup Final took the world by surprise, forcing it to recognize much about itself that it had been in denial of for quite some time. Who were these soccer fans? Where had they come...
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There will never be another story like that of Leeds United Football Club in the 1960s.
Post-war industrial England, a dirty hinterland in the North and Midlands where the skyline was punctuated by grimy old stacks and evil-looking factories. It was a simpler time, but also less informed; if you said 'Prosecco', 'Paparazzi' and 'Literati' to even the worldly-wise gentlemen of the press, after the sneer, you might have got a guess that you were discussing...
11) Die große Chance
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Deutsch
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In diesem Buch geht es um einen Jungen, der bei seinem Verein Fußball spielt. Er und seine Freunde spielen in einer mittelmäßig guten Liga. In ein paar Tagen steht der NewTalentsCup an, bei dem Scouts dabei sind. Alle sind total nervös, weil alle gesichtet werden wollen, um endlich Profi zu werden.
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Juin 1930, l'équipe nationale belge de football embarque à bord du Conte Verde. Ce paquebot les emmène à Montevideo en Uruguay. C'est là, en effet, que se déroule la toute première Coupe du monde de l'histoire. De Mexico à Kobe en passant par Rio ou Bordeaux, les Belges enchaînent ensuite les compétitions mondiales, forgeant ainsi quantité de souvenirs gravés à jamais dans la tête et le cœur de leurs supporters. Dans Une Coupe, un Diable,...
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Así como su primera edición estrenada en 2018 por Intermedio, la segunda edición de Más allá de los 90 minutos es consecuencia de la narrativa que caracteriza al fútbol y que incluye competencias, sentimientos colectivos, representaciones históricas,
confrontaciones políticas, proyectos ideológicos y coyunturas sociales. Se trata de una compilación de relatos atemporales de episodios singulares que tuvieron lugar en cada uno de los mundiales...
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Le Standard appartient à ses supporters. L'histoire du Standard de Liège est marquée par une caractéristique majeure : c'est un club populaire. Sans aucun doute le club de football le plus populaire de Belgique. Depuis l'arrivée de Roland Duchâtelet à la tête du club, la fierté d'appartenance et le sentiment du « Le Standard c'est nous ! » se sont encore exacerbés. L'homme a pourtant démontré qu'il aime le football. Ses activités d'entrepreneur...
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17 juin 2002. Sur un terrain lisse comme un billard, quelque part à l'autre bout de monde, Jacky Peeters envoie un centre parfait sur le front de Marc Wilmots. 1-0. Nous sommes au Mondial de football et l'adversaire est l'imbattable formation brésilienne. L'histoire s'écrit... furtivement car l'arbitre Peter Prendergast annule le but. Les Belges accusent le coup, le Brésil l'emporte et deviendra plus tard le vainqueur du tournoi. C'était le goal...
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A three-time winner of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, Cristiano Ronaldo's status as a footballing superstar is unquestionable.
His insatiable desire to succeed and to improve himself year-after-year has seen him win almost everything there is to win in the game, including his first international silverware: a Euro 2016 winner's medal. Here, Madrid-based journalist Luca Caioli tells the inside story of the global superstar, featuring insights from those who...
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United With Dad is an emotional tale of football fandom and fatherhood, detailing the agonising final two years of a man's life while drawing on his love for and memories of Manchester United.
David Lloyd passed away from metastatic prostate cancer in a nursing home in November 2019. During his heartbreaking decline, he also lived with dementia. His affection for United was ignited by early visits to Old Trafford as a boy in the 1950s. Through...
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In the late spring of 1950, eleven young immigrants' sons, most of them strangers to each other, came together for the love and fun of a game of soccer. They came from Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, from jobs in canneries, brickyards, post offices, classrooms, and bars, to play for their country in the 1950 World Cup, resulting in what has since been called, by scores of sources for more than forty years, the greatest upset victory...
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Un père champion d'Europe de catch qui a trouvé l'amour au bord d'un ring en Allemagne, une enfance modeste mais heureuse... Daniel Van Buyten l'a juré à ses parents quand il était gosse : « Je serai footballeur professionnel. » Pari gagné ! Le « fils du catcheur », comme il était surnommé dans la région de Chimay, est devenu successivement « Big Dan », ensuite le transfert le plus cher de notre football, enfin le joueur belge le plus...
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