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.
- ISBN10 1780973934
- ISBN13 9781780973937
- Publish Date 10 October 2013
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Welbeck Publishing Group
- Imprint Carlton Books Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English