Book description
Known around the world as football, soccer is the world's most
watched and played sport. Now Doug Lennox, the striker of Q&A,
scores with a pitch full of tidbits that delivers the goods on
PelMaradona, Beckham, Zidane, and other superstars, as well as the
history, traditions, and rules of the game. Doug has compiled a World
Cup of trivia about a truly universal phenomenon that has legions of
passionate, and sadly sometimes violent, fans.
- How did soccer originate?,
- Who was the first soccer
player to score a hat trick in a World Cup final?
- What was
the largest attendance ever for a soccer match?
- What is the
"technical area"?
- Where was the world's first
soccer club formed?
- What was the first movie ever made
about soccer?
- Where was the first World Cup held?
- What are the Laws of the Game?
- What were the 10 worst
losses of life in soccer history?
Doug Lennox is an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, a veteran
character actor, a commercial voice artist, and a bestselling author.
He has appeared in more than 60 films and television features,
including X-Men, Police Academy, and Dove, and
has shared screen time with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Burt Reynolds, and
a myriad of others.
