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The U. S. mens soccer team was a huge disappointment at the World Cup in 2006, but a newly constituted team exceeded all expectations in June 2009 with their inspired play at the Confederations Cup in South Africawhere they upset the number one team in the world, Spain, and lost late in the championship game to a supremely talented Brazilian squad. Their impressive showing gave fans, including the ever-loyal Sams Army, a renewed sense of hope that when the team plays up to its capabilities, the Americans can compete with anyone in the world. In Chasing the Game, Filip Bondy describes the U. S. teams path to qualifying for this years World Cupto be held on the African continent for the first time ever, in South Africa in June 2010. Bondy also reveals the back-and-forth saga that resulted in the hiring of Bob Bradley as the American coach, and serves up engaging profiles of several core players, including the U. S. national teams all-time leader in scoring and assists, Landon Donovan, acrobatic goalie Tim Howard, hip-hop devotee and opportunistic goal-scorer Clint Deuce Dempsey, up-and-comer Jozy Altidore, and the coachs son, the reticent yet dependable Michael Bradley. Chasing the Game also recounts the glorious highlights of past World Cup matches, like the U. S. mens teams stunning 10 victory over England in 1950 and the 2002 teams advance to the quarterfinals, as well as heartbreaks like the fiasco in 2006, when the U. S. mustered only four shots on goal in three games. Finally, Bondy also traces the origin of soccer and the evolution of the game in the U. S. , chronicling how soccer academies like the one in Bradenton, Florida, have impacted the game at both the youth and national levels. Its all here for the first time in one bookthe complete story of American soccer on the global stage.
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• The goal that changes everything
• The making of a fan
• The best group ever
• Not ready for prime time
• The kid comes back
• The sweetest fans
• Marking Maradona
• Mr. Blatter comes to America
• The big event
• America's first soccer champion
• Allons, enfants
• Americans win World Cup- again
• The year of the outsiders
• The home I was always seeking
• Scandal and head-butt
• Nelson Mandela meets FIFA
• Spain makes a breakthrough
• Blatter scores an own goal
• The Age of Klinsmann
• Epilogue: back to the roots
• Appendix. Eight World Cups.

Blending witty travelogue with action on the field - and shady dealings in the back rooms - Vecsey offers an eye-opening, globetrotting account of the last eight World Cups, chronicling the United States team's slow, episodic rise while evidence of corruption grows in the sport's executive suites. Vecsey immerses himself in the great national leagues, historic clubs, devoted fans, and passionate rivalries and gives us his up-close impressions of charismatic stars like Socrates, Maradona, Baggio, Zidane, and Klinsmann-plus Mia Hamm and the American champions of 1999. From his first exposure to the all-night street parties in Barcelona during the 1982 World Cup, Vecsey describes proud nations during their turns as hosts, right up to the roar of vuvuzelas in South Africa in 2010. He discovers that the game in the stadium is backed up by the game in the street, but the joy is sometimes undermined by those who style themselves its protectors, many of them eventually disgraced. With his characteristic sharp reporting and eye for detail, Vecsey brings this global event to vivid life, a perfect companion for fans in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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• Das spiel mit der flagge
• Stolz im zwischenraum
• Patriotismus und bielefeldgefühl oder : ein nichtort als standpunkt
• Karrierestationen einer todsünde
• Das gegenteil vom gegenteil
• Wer ist für fussball?
• Kick ins offene
• Unter der dusche (mit luhmann und lehmann)
• Drei farben
• Flaggen zum verlieben
• Traumkombination
• Nach der party Ist vor dem spiel.

From the tournament's origins in 1930 to modern times, A History of the World Cup: 1930-2010 contains vivid accounts of individual games, statistics for each competition, photos, and profiles of the players and coaches who left their mark on the competition over the past eight decades. Though other histories of the World Cup largely ignore the United States' contribution to the competition, this volume highlights the progress of the American teams over the last several decades. Fully updated with a new chapter on the 2010 World Cup and with profiles of those players who stood out in the latest competition, this comprehensive history of the world's biggest sporting event provides a fascinating read for fans of the game.
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• Part 1 Foreword
• Part 2 Acknowledgments
• Part 3 Introduction
• Part 4 1 The World Cup Is Born
• Part 5 2 The First Steps
• Part 6 3 Brazil Is King
• Part 7 4 Pele the King
• Part 8 5 Total Football
• Part 9 6 The Hand of God
• Part 10 7 A New Froniter
• Part 11 8 "Four"-za Italia!
• Part 12 Glossary
• Part 13 Appendix A: World Cup Stats
• Part 14 Appendix B: World Cup Records
• Part 15 Bibliography
• Part 16 Index
• Part 17 About the Author.
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There is no sporting event more popular than the World Cup. For one month every four years, hundreds of millions of people around the planet turn their attention to the tournament. People call in sick to work. Fans pack into bars to watch games or stay home for days at a time glued to their TV sets. Even wars stop. Nothing else seems to matter. The first World Cup, won by Uruguay in 1930, featured just 13 teams. Today, the tournament includes 32 nations, and the final alone is watched by an estimated global audience that exceeds one billion viewers. Without a doubt, soccer-or football-is the planet's pastime, and the World Cup is the ultimate sporting event. In A History of the World Cup: 1930-2006, reporter Clemente Lisi chronicles this international phenomenon, providing vivid accounts of individual games: from the tournament's origins in 1930 to modern times. The book also highlights the players and coaches who left their mark on the competition over the past six decades, including Diego Maradona, Juste Fontaine, Franz Beckenbauer, Mario Kempes, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, and, of course, Pele. Though other histories of the World Cup largely ignore the U.S.'s contribution to the competition, this volume highlights the progress of the American teams over the last several decades. And while the scope of this book allows American fans to more thoroughly enjoy a history of the World Cup-the book will be of interest to any fan of the sport. Featuring a glossary of terms, statistics for each competition, photos, and profiles of the most memorable-and controversial-figures of the sport, A History of the World Cup provides a fascinating read for fans of the game.
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Memoirs and anecdotes on Inter, football club of Milan.

• Brasil em todas as 20 copas do mundo, 1930-2014
• 1a copa do mundo no Uruguai, 1930
• 2a copa do mundo na Itália, 1934
• 3a copa do mundo na França, 1938
• 4a copa do mundo no Brasil, 1950
• 5a copa do mundo na Suíça, 1954
• 6a copa do mundo na Suécia, 1958 --- 7a copa do mundo no Chile, 1962
• 8a copa do mundo no Inglaterra, 1966
• 9a copa do mundo no México, 1970
• 10a copa do mundo na Alemanha, 1974
• 11a copa do mundo na Argentina, 1978
• 12a copa do mundo ns Espanha, 1982
• 13a copa do mundo no México, 1986
• 14a copa do mundo na Itália, 1990
• 15a copa do mundo nos E.U.A., 1994
• 16a copa do mundo na França, 1998
• 17th copa do mundo na Coreia/Japão, 2002
• 18th copa do mundo na Alemanha, 2006
• 19th copa do mundo na África do Sul, 2010
• 20th copa do mundo no Brasil, 2014
• Participação Brasileira : resultados e escalações
• Tabelas estatísticas
• Resultados das rodadas finais, 1930-2010.

• Copas do Mundo : o que elas nos ensinam sobre o Brasil / Ronaldo Helal e Alvaro do Cabo
• Copas do Mundo e identidade nacional : um panorama teórico / Alvaro do Cabo e Ronaldo Helal
• 1938 : o nascimento mítico do futebol-arte brasileiro / Camila Augusta Pereira e Hugo Lovisolo
• Vitória épica e tragédia nacional em 1950 : um contraponto entre o Diário Carioca e veículos da imprensa uruguaia / Alvaro do Cabo e Ronaldo Helal
• Do complexo de vira-latas à "nossa" Taça do Mundo / José Carlos Marques
• Copa de 1962
• a consolidação da pátria de chuteiras / Márcio Guerra e Filipe Mostaro
• 1970
• pra frente, Brasil : preparo da caserna, coração de chumbo e mente brilhante / Antonio Jorge Gonçalves Soares e Marco Antonio Santoro Salvador
• 1982 : lágrimas de uma geração de ouro / Leda Costa
• Copa de 1994 : os múltiplos discursos autorizados sobre a seleção campeã menos amada da história / Fausto Amaro
• 1998 : o colapso da arrogância nacional / Édison Gastaldo
• 2002 : da Familia Scolari ao topo do mundo
• a contradição entre o local e o global no futebol contemporâneo / Francisco Ângelo Brinati e João Paulo Vieira Teixeira
• Salve a seleção! mídia, identidade nacional e Copa das Confederações 2013 / Ronaldo Helal, Alvaro do Cabo e Carmelo Silva.