Stars of All Time

by Illugi Jökulsson

Overview

Here are the best men’s team players throughout soccer history!

Stars of All Time highlights both iconic pioneers of world soccer, including Pelé, Johan Cruyff, and Maradona, and more recent all-star players, such as Messi and Ronaldo. Young readers will learn about where each player grew up, how he made it to the top, and what makes his playing style unique. Filled with facts and illustrations, showcasing the most exciting players of the past and present, this book will wow both the soccer novice and the passionate fan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789212955
Publisher:	Abbeville Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Series:	World Soccer Legends Series
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	66,456
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Illugi Jökulsson is a journalist, editor, and author living in Iceland.

Table of Contents

Pelé
Messi
Maradona
Cruyff
Puskás
Garrincha
Di Stéfano
Ronaldo
Zidane
Beckenbauer
Ronaldo
Platini
Eusébio
Zico
Müller
Van Basten
Yashin
Ronaldinho
Best
Zlatan
Best in Brazil
Best in South America
Best in the UK
Best in Europe
Best in Italy
Best in Africa

Editorial Reviews

Praise for World Soccer Legends

“These books address a largely unfilled niche: short, highly readable biographies of contemporary soccer stars. The texts are printed over and around voluminous, richly printed photographs and include many pages of scoring statistics and league standing. … Frequent references to great players of the past—Maradona, Pelé, Cruyff, Eusebio—lend the books a welcome historical context. …. These entries are excellent.”—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2017-08-08
Jökulsson and Torfason present 20 men with thighs like oak and feet like mambas.Like Madonna, these men need only one name, like Maradona. Represented in short, zinging profiles are 20 of soccer's (or football's, if you prefer) greatest players. Told with as much flash as the players exhibit, the book is also energetic in its design, with crisp biographies that capture major moments, boxed items that illuminate some particular achievement or disaster, photos, and outline maps of the players' native countries. Soccer is a game that rivets half the world, from Finland to Cameroon to Argentina, and its global reach is an important aspect of the book's humanism. It doesn't shy away from the weaknesses that can attend even the most gifted among us: George Best's alcoholism, Zinedine Zidane's temper, Diego Maradona's drug problems. While all these players had extraordinary physical attributes of strength and endurance, what makes them shine is their elegance and brains. Such words as "cunning," "dexterity," and "vision" speak of what is admired in the game: "Beckenbauer was such an ingenious defense player and team leader that he is repeatedly noted as the greatest defender in history—without ever being rough or vicious." The worldwide scope of the players represented is impressive, and it also gives a sense of world history, as in the entry on Mozambique's Eusébio, who played for then-imperial overlord Portugal. Joyful, enthusiastic, well-versed, and uplifting. (Nonfiction. 10-14)

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