商品簡介
Featuring exclusive interviews with 22 of the greatest-ever football players and an authoritative text, the incredible story of the world's leading tournament is gloriously celebrated in This is the World Cup. Packed with more than 150 stunning and rarely published photographs, this unique illustrated history celebrates more than 80 years of the competition. Starting in 1930, each World Cup tournament is dissected and discussed, as are the big incidents, top personalities and fascinating background stories. To complete the book, 22 of the World Cup's greatest names - including Pele, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer - provide exclusive personal insights and accounts of what it is like to compete at the pinnacle of world football. This is the World Cup is a special volume, celebrating the World Cup and the legends who created historic moments that are now part of football folklore.
作者簡介
Gavin Newsham is an award-winning writer whose work regularly appears in the Sunday Times. His previous books include Once in a Lifetime, the story of the New York Cosmos and celebrated biographies of golfer John Daly (winner of NSC Best New Writer in 2004), The Ofiicial Treasures of Muhammad Ali and the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Fact File.
