How to Win the World Cup - Softcover

McColl, Graham

 
9780593066225: How to Win the World Cup
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0593066227 ISBN 13: 9780593066225
Verlag: Bantam Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

A fascinating and ground-breaking revelation of the key elements behind previous World Cup winners; could it be England in 2010?

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Graham McColl is a writer and journalist whose work regularly appears in The Times, Four Four Two and When Saturday Comes. His many books include The Official Biography of Celtic, United We Stand and '78: How a Nation Lost the World Cup.

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Winning the World Cup should be simple, shouldn't it? You take the best team on the planet, with the best players and coaches, win (or even draw) the small matter of seven matches and the famous trophy is yours. Yet it remains the most elusive prize in sport. Just seven nations have ever won it. Why? And, most importantly, how?

In How to Win the World Cup, Graham McColl takes apart every aspect of previous champions to root out the essential characteristics of a World Cup-winning team. From tactics to team spirit, media hype and public expectation, the political climate and the weather - not forgetting luck, penalties and, of course, cheating - the variety of means used to win the World Cup range from the bizarre to the brilliant, and every tournament has thrown up questions. Why has only one home country won in the past three decades? What about the brilliant losers: Hungary, Holland, Argentina in 2006?

With a winning combination of humour and analysis, How to Win the World Cup debunks myths and turns accepted truths on their heads in search of the essence of victory. And as Africa hosts the World Cup for the first time, it presents a unique perspective on what lies just around the corner in 2010, and how past winners' strategies reflect on Fabio Capello's England and their chances of success.

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Verlag
Bantam Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593066227
ISBN 13 
9780593066225
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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