Match! Incredible Stats and Facts
Published on 21. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-5098-2500-4 (ISBN)
Description
Discover over a thousand jaw-dropping stats and crazy facts from the makers of the UK's best football magazine!
Match! Incredible Stats and Facts is packed full of brilliant facts, stats, lists and records from fastest goals to top scorers and most red cards to tallest stars in the Premier League. Includes amazing player facts, bonkers football injuries, biggest transfer fees, fantastic footie legends, trophy trivia, stunning stadiums, incredible strange-but-true revelations, all the firsts, and the fastest, tallest, boldest facts about the Champions League, the Premier League, the FA Cup, the UEFA European Championship and the World Cup.
For example, did you know . . .
*Former Tottenham Hotspur captain Ledley King holds the record for the quickest Premier League goal. He scored ten seconds after kick-off in a match against Bradford in the 2000/01 season.
*Brazilian legend, Pele, scored ninety-two hat-tricks, four goals on thirty-one occasions, five goals six times, and once bagged eight goals in a game!
*Sergio Batista (1986) and Gennaro Gattuso (2006) are apparently the only two players to have won the World Cup while sporting a full beard.
Discover more footy fun in this awesome series, with MATCH! Joke Book, MATCH! Football Puzzles, MATCH! Build Your Own Club and MATCH! England Football Heroes.
Match! Incredible Stats and Facts is packed full of brilliant facts, stats, lists and records from fastest goals to top scorers and most red cards to tallest stars in the Premier League. Includes amazing player facts, bonkers football injuries, biggest transfer fees, fantastic footie legends, trophy trivia, stunning stadiums, incredible strange-but-true revelations, all the firsts, and the fastest, tallest, boldest facts about the Champions League, the Premier League, the FA Cup, the UEFA European Championship and the World Cup.
For example, did you know . . .
*Former Tottenham Hotspur captain Ledley King holds the record for the quickest Premier League goal. He scored ten seconds after kick-off in a match against Bradford in the 2000/01 season.
*Brazilian legend, Pele, scored ninety-two hat-tricks, four goals on thirty-one occasions, five goals six times, and once bagged eight goals in a game!
*Sergio Batista (1986) and Gennaro Gattuso (2006) are apparently the only two players to have won the World Cup while sporting a full beard.
Discover more footy fun in this awesome series, with MATCH! Joke Book, MATCH! Football Puzzles, MATCH! Build Your Own Club and MATCH! England Football Heroes.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 to 11 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5098-2500-4 (9781509825004)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Match is the must-buy weekly magazine for every young football fan. As well as having all the transfer gossip and latest news from the Premier League, Football League and the World Cup, Match! magazine brings you the biggest interviews with the best footballers on the planet!