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1) Soccer
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Examines all aspects of the game of soccer, including its history, rules, soccer skills, tactics, equipment, famous players, and playing fields.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The World Cup, international soccer's championship tournament, rules the global sports stage. Award-winning author Matt Doeden explores the history of international soccer and covers the World Cup's greatest moments, from the most shocking goals to bigges.
6) Tangerine
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about the World Cup. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Kingfisher Soccer Encyclopedia captures the triumph and despair of pivotal moments in world soccer. Packed with pictures and profiles of the world's most skillful soccer players--old and new--from Beckham to Messi, Pele to Ronaldo, Rooney to Neymar. Over 40 of the best sides to have lit up the game are covered in detail, including the U.S's men's and women's teams, Brazil, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Spain. State of the art digital illustrations...
9) Soccer hero
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Description
Rob Lasher is just an ordinary soccer player, good at the game, but not great. Then one afternoon, he saves his coach's life in front of all his teammates. Suddenly, he's the team's hero. As some members of his team and the rest of the town continue to laud Rob's heroic act, Rob realizes he doesn't want the attention and any unearned accolades that come with it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and her friends meet at the soccer field for their first game of three-on-three! Thanks to Coach Nick, Lucy and the rest of Team Blue learn a few basic skills as they prepare to face Team Red."--Cover flap.
11) Soccer mania
Author
Series
Nancy Clancy volume 6
Language
English
Description
As her third-grade class makes its selections for the "Graveyard of Boring Words" and learns about "superb synonyms," slow-footed Nancy enthusiastically plays on the soccer team, with the goal of just being mediocre, or maybe even a little better than average.
12) Dino-soccer
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plant-eating dinosaurs face meat-eating dinosaurs in a soccer match.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume no. 5
Language
English
Description
Second-grader Eugene McGillicudy finds that he can tap the power of Captain Awesome without wearing the costume, as he scores a goal for his soccer team.
14) Pelé
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pele. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of Baurú, Brazil, so poor that he couldn't afford a real soccer ball.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 370 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Soccer Without Borders, journalist Erik Kirschbaum lays out Klinsmann's vision for making the U.S. men's soccer team a dominant world power for the first time in its history. Featuring fascinating insights gleaned from Klinsmann's decades of dedicated study - both as a professional striker and as coach of the German national team - this book is an immersive and unparalleled road map for how to build a winning team in the most competitive professional...
16) World Cup heroes
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn more about the biggest soccer even in the world, the World Cup.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As entertaining and raucous as the league itself, Rock 'n' Roll Soccer recounts the hype and chaos surrounding the rapid rise and cataclysmic fall of the NASL, an enterprising and groundbreaking league that did too much right to ignore.
The North American Soccer League - at its peak in the late 1970s, presented soccer as performance, played by men with a bent for flair, hair and glamour. More than just Pelé and the New York Cosmos, it lured the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Britt-Marie can't stand a mess, but that's exactly what her life has become. Leaving behind an unfaithful husband and a lifetime of taking care of everyone else before herself, she moves to the backwater town of Borg for a job looking after a crumbling recreation center, the favorite hangout of the town's supremely untalented children's soccer team. With her strict views about all things from the proper arrangement of a cutlery drawer to the appropriate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one of the world's most loved and highly recognized soccer stars-David Beckham-moved to America, it created a new stir in our nation's love of the sport. This book takes a look at today's greatest soccer players, and how they're bound to become legends.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When victory is within reach and the game is in its final moments, some players seize the moment and make themselves legends. From stunning goals in injury time to breathtaking saves in shootouts, some of soccer's greatest moments are chronicled in vivid fashion here. You've got a front-row view of the action.
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