101 Fascinating Football Facts
(or soccer to some!)
Published on 28. April 2026
280 pages
978-1-4597-5683-0 (ISBN)
Description
- A perfect gift-able, affordable little paperback for football/soccer lovers
- Packed with stories, fun facts, trivia, and little-known tidbits to delight the soccer fan in your life
- Author is a sports writer and fan: he runs social media accounts on Seattle Kraken and Wrexham AFC, and runs a hockey podcast
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Person
Alex Broad is a new media sports analyst and commentator. He first gained notoriety for his viral coverage of the 2014 Russian
Olympics as #SochiProblems on X (formerly Twitter). Alex now runs social media accounts dedicated to the Seattle Kraken and Wrexham AFC. He also hosts the hockey podcast Beneath the Waves. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1. One For the Underdogs
- 2. Own-Goal Protest
- 3. Why Is a Soccer Ball Black and White?
- 4. Three Oldest Professional Soccer Clubs in the World
- 5. Canada at the World Cup
- 6. FIFA's First Cup
- 7. Kings of the Cups
- 8. Blink and You'll Miss It!
- 9. The Largest Crowd
- 10. Goals, Goals, Goals!
- 11. Canada's Soccer GOAT
- 12. Cristiano Ronal-goal
- 13. The Edinburgh International
- 14. Africa Rising
- 15. You're Hired. You're Fired!
- 16. The Long and Winding Road
- 17. Sold to the Highest Bidder!
- 18. Size Matters
- 19. The Young and the Old
- 20. Alphabet Soup
- 21. The Grass Is Always Greener ...
- 22. Kick It Like Cuju
- 23. Thunderstruck!
- 24. You Get a Club, and You Get a Club, and You Get a Club ...
- 25. Seeing Red!
- 26. Footballing's First: Lily Parr
- 27. Perfect Pitch
- 28. The Munitionettes Cup
- 29. The Pearl of Brazil
- 30. How Big Is Too Big?
- 31. Shrovetide Football
- 32. Alphonso Davies
- 33. The Fastest Red Card
- 34. CONCACAF'ed
- 35. All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go
- 36. When Did Soccer Kick Off in Canada?
- 37. Gerd Müller
- 38. Never Tell Me the Odds!
- 39. Silver at Home
- 40. Back to Back ... to Back
- 41. Not to Be Encouraged
- 42. Gold for Galt!
- 43. The San Marino Curse
- 44. From Parks to Prem
- 45. Not Bad, Eh?
- 46. David Versus Real Madrid
- 47. Hey, We Know You
- 48. No Qualification? No Problem!
- 49. The Great Pelé
- 50. The Great Pickles Caper
- 51. The One and Only
- 52. The Football War
- 53. Talk About a Pain in the Neck!
- 54. Can't Win If You're English
- 55. But They Didn't Even Score
- 56. Hat-Trick King
- 57. Barce-No Problem
- 58. The King of Cons
- 59. I Am Your Spanish Mother
- 60. One Ball Less
- 61. The Deadly Dutch
- 62. Own-Goal Nightmare
- 63. Kiwis Really Kick Off!
- 64. A Surprise Golden Boot
- 65. Two Different Hemispheres
- 66. Keeper Record
- 67. No Foul Given
- 68. Football Slang Around the World
- 69. We Went to the Moon
- 70. I Am José Mourinho
- 71. Red? Yellow? No, Thanks
- 72. The Colour Curse
- 73. European Giants
- 74. Headed from Half
- 75. Only Three Matches Needed
- 76. What Are You Worth?
- 77. Heads or Tails?
- 78. Football and the Middle East
- 79. Deduct This!
- 80. The Mattress Makers
- 81. China's Footballing Dreams
- 82. Italia
- 83. A Glassy-Eyed Miracle
- 84. Coal Miner's Soccer
- 85. If the Shoe Fits
- 86. Late Call-Up
- 87. Ninety-Second Wonder
- 88. A Contract Clause That's Out of This World
- 89. Luis Monti: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
- 90. The Flightless Dutchman
- 91. Thunder Clap
- 92. Capped
- 93. Arthur Wharton
- 94. How Long Is Too Long?
- 95. Ballon d'Or'ed
- 96. Two for One!
- 97. Sponsored
- 98. The Hand of God
- 99. Who's Calling the Game, Anyway?
- 100. Perfect 10!
- 101. Allez, Allez, Allez! Oi! Oi! Oi!
- Back Cover
