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Reference Trivia

Now You Know Soccer

by (author) Doug Lennox

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2009
Category
Trivia, General, Soccer

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554884162
    Publish Date
    Jun 2009
    List Price
    $19.99

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770706132
    Publish Date
    Jun 2009
    List Price
    $7.99

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770704077
    Publish Date
    Jun 2008
    List Price
    $19.99

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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 Pelé, Maradona, 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?

About the author

Doug Lennox was an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, a veteran character actor, a commercial voice artist, and a bestselling author. He appeared in more than 60 films and television features, including X-Men, Police Academy, Lonesome Dove, and Against the Ropes, and shared screen time with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Burt Reynolds, Holly Hunter, Eric McCormack, Gary Oldman, and a myriad of others. He passed away November 28, 2015.

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