Download or read book Messigraphica written by Sanjeev Shetty and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel Messi is universally recognised as one of the greatest footballers of all time. From his childhood days kicking a ball on the streets of Rosario, Argentina, through his rise at the Barcelona academy, Messi has dribbled, dazzled and fired his way into the footballing elite. In this innovative biography, Messi’s genius is explored and celebrated like never before: striking infographics illustrate the brilliance of his performances in football's greatest occasions, illuminate his pitch coverage and ball skills, as well as, his outstanding goal-scoring feats – no man has scored more goals in a calendar year. Messi’s talent, athleticism and eye for the game are showcased against his teammates, rivals and footballing legends. Analysing his years under the tutelage of Pep Guardiola, the overarching shadow of fellow Argentine great Maradona and his rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo, Sanjeev Shetty charts Messi’s rise into a player revered in equal parts for the goals he scores and the ones he creates. Through infographics, photography and analysis, Messigraphica reveals the genius of Barcelona’s greatest like never before.

Download or read book Lionel Messi written by Leslie Holleran and published by Lerner Publications TM. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel Messi dominates soccer. Claiming every major trophy in soccer, Messi is one of the sport’s most decorated players. He has an Olympic gold medal, a World Cup win, seven Copa del Rey trophies, and more. Messi has also claimed eight Ballon d’Or awards and was named the world’s top male soccer player multiple times. In 1987 Leo was born in Rosario, Argentina. He began playing soccer at a young age. At 13 years old, Leo and his family moved to Spain so he could play for FC Barcelona’s youth teams. He worked his way up to the pro team. Messi led Barcelona and the Argentina national team to many titles. In 2023 Messi signed with Inter Miami CF, bringing his amazing play to the United States. Learn more about Lionel Messi and how he became soccer’s golden striker.

Download or read book Lionel Messi written by Kate Shoup and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soccer star Lionel Messi is one of the most famous and highest-paid athletes in the world, but it wasn't always that way. This biography traces Messi's footsteps from his middle-class neighborhood in Rosario, Argentina, to the soccer fields of Europe. Readers will learn of his introduction to a game that would make him rich, his early promise despite his small stature, the medical crisis that nearly derailed his career, and his move from home at thirteen to train in faraway Spain. Vivid photographs and sidebars that detail his distinguished career take readers on a fascinating journey. Along the way, readers will discover the secrets of Messi's success and what's next for the soccer star.

Download or read book Lionel Messi and the Art of Living written by Andy West and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lionel Messi and the Art of Living is a bold, insightful and unique examination of a world famous sporting hero from an entirely new perspective, providing a context extending far beyond the football field. Although the details of Messi’s story are already well known, this book studies afresh and anew his glorious triumphs and his desperate failures, his ongoing evolution and his endless struggle to succeed. It encourages us to analyze and think about his career from a different viewpoint, revealing how his journey can be related to our own lives on a meaningful and impactful level. Containing extensive and illuminating exclusive interviews with deep thinkers and high achievers from a number of fields, this book delivers a vibrant and inspiring approach to a global icon. You will never look at Lionel Messi—or life—in the same way again. ANDY WEST has been writing professionally about soccer for 20 years, working in a number of different roles for the likes of Reading FC, Manchester City and the Football Association. Since 2012 he has been covering Spanish football for a variety of international media outlets, such as BBC Sport. “Leo is a generous and humble guy.” PABLO ZABALETA “He’s the greatest player in the history of the game.” BRENDAN RODGERS

Download or read book Total Football A graphic history of the world s most iconic soccer tactics written by Sanjeev Shetty and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've never seen football formations and tactic explored like they are in Total Football ever before. A must-have for football experts! A goalkeeper, two defenders and eight attackers – it’s no surprise that in the 1950s under this popular formation scores like 9-3 were common. So what changed? Total Football tells the evolution of football tactics: from the birth of Total Football in the Netherlands to the dominance of tiki taka in Spain and Brazil, each chapter explores an iconic tactic. Innovative graphics alongside expert text guide you through the manager decisions that developed new formations, the pure talent of players that defined each playing style and the matches that propelled the winning tactic to legendary status. Sanjeev Shetty explores how each tactic works, how they came to dominate and how opponents worked to find a way to beat them. From Pele to Messi, Cruyff to Mourinho, Total Football explores the tactics that made the legends, giving you a new understanding of how the beautiful game is played.

Download or read book Calcio s Greatest Forwards written by George Rinaldi and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insight from some of the finest Italian soccer broadcast and newspaper journalists, including a foreword from iconic Italian soccer writer Gabriele Marcotti, Calcio's Greatest Forwards devotes a chapter to each of the 21 best strikers to have graced L'Italia since 1929, delving deep into the back stories of Serie A's finest attackers. From Gigi Riva's historic Scudetto with Cagliari; to Roberto Boninsegna and an infamous incident involving a Coca-Cola can; through to the modern era, and the Divine Ponytail Roberto Baggio, Alessandro Del Piero, and Francesco Totti. There's some cracking insight and stories on the 21 subjects, such as why Pippo Inzaghi favored a cured beef diet, Giuseppe Meazza's off-field antics when awakening the night before a crunch league match in someone else's bed, and just why Christian Vieri had a love for cricket. George Rinaldi explores the fine careers of these soccer players and examines, admires, and scrutinizes the finest strikers in Serie A history.

Download or read book written by サンジーヴシェティ and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 世界最高のフットボーラーの凄さを膨大な写真とデータ、証言によって構成。かつてないメッシ本をぜひ、その手に!

Download or read book The Flea The Amazing Story of Leo Messi written by Michael Part and published by Sole Books. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of soccer legend Lionel Messi, from his first touch at age five in the streets of Rosario, Argentina, to his first goal on the Camp Nou pitch in Barcelona, Spain. The Flea tells the amazing story of a boy who was born to play the beautiful game and destined to become the world's greatest soccer player.

Download or read book Messi written by Leonardo Faccio and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For soccer enthusiasts and sports fans in general, an in-depth look at the life of the beautiful game’s greatest star, Argentine footballer Lionel Messi. Whether you call it soccer, football, fútbol, or the “beautiful game," it is the most popular sport in the world, and Argentine footballer Lionel Messi stands as one of its finest players—not only of his time, but of all time. Admired around the globe for his athleticism, skill, and fierce competitiveness, Messi has, at the age of 24, already shattered records at one of the most storied clubs in the world, FC Barcelona. Now, in this comprehensive biography, Messi fans can learn more about his life and career. Argentine journalist Leonardo Faccio describes how Messi, as a talented youth player in Buenos Aires, left his home for Spain in search of the medical help his family could not afford to treat his rare hormone deficiency. Small of stature, but possessing tremendous natural gifts, Messi developed into a star at Barcelona’s famed Masia soccer school. In this book, Faccio has written not only a biography of an enigmatic celebrity, but a meditation on athletic genius, drawing on interviews with Messi himself, as well as with everyone from his family, teammates, childhood friends—even his favorite butcher. In-depth and intimate, soccer fans who enjoy watching Messi come alive on the field will delight as he comes alive on the page.

Download or read book Messi 2013 Edition written by Luca Caioli and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Pibe de Oro. The Golden Boy. Diego Maradona's unwaning shadow looms large over world football. In 2007 the brilliant Argentine chose Lionel Messi as his successor to the famous No. 10 shirt. But you can never be sure that potential will be fulfilled. Three years later, Messi – El Pulga, the Flea – is a European Champion, Olympic Gold Medallist, the most naturally gifted footballer on the planet and a hero to millions of fans across the globe. Champions, reporters and coaches blunder time and time again in their haste to find superstars. This time they got it right. Aged only 22, he shows a degree of maturity rarely seen on the soccer pitch. Yet underneath the layers of footballing brilliance, he is still the shy boy who describes his Maradona moment with disarming simplicity: 'I saw the gap and I went for it.' Transcending both club and country, he is a sporting god who prefers homemade cookies to brand name perfumes. Author Luca Caioli draws on exceptional testimonies. Messi's parents, Celia and Jorge, his bother Rodrigo and his uncles and aunts; his coaches at Grandoli and Newell's Old Boys; Charly Rexach, Alex García, Frank Rjikaard, Gianluca Zambrotta from Barcelona; Hugo Tocalli, Pancho Ferrero, el Coco Basile, Roberto Perfumo from Argentina. And to conclude, Leo Messi himself sizes up his life so far.

Download or read book Football Superstars Messi Rules written by Simon Mugford and published by Football Superstars. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything the young fan wants to know about Lionel Messi, from his childhood to the present day, including lots of quizzes and facts.

Download or read book No Middle Ground written by Sanjeev Shetty and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the first bout in the epic battle between Nigel Benn, Michael Watson and Chris Eubank to contest the WBO Middleweight Championship that would keep us entertained for five manic, magnificent and ultimately tragic years, marking the start of an epic saga in British Boxing. The fight took place a month after the Hillsborough disaster and was screened live on TV, in a slot now dominated by talent contests. It was a time when kids could stay up late to watch 12 rounds of madness. It was also the last Golden Era of British Boxing. While for us these greats of British boxing provided entertainment away from the hooliganism of football, for them it was much more personal. Rivalries exist in every sport, but their loathing was real and in the ring it nearly became deadly. But this is what the swaggering early-90's Britain tuned in for. These three fighters were Britain's alpha-ego. They made the country proud. No Middle Ground takes us back to the years when these boxers pounded the heavy bags and tells their story as well as that of Britain's love affair with the sport, and how these fight came to define them and us. In tracing the boxers' journeys to centre-stage Sanjeev Shetty reveals the story of the dark side of Thatcher's nation - the blood, the sweat, the dangerous hatred that fuelled these men, and the ultimate price they would pay for their moment in the sun.

Download or read book Messi written by Guillem Balague and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi' Diego Maradona FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 2022 WORLD CUP TRIUMPH & MESSI'S TRANSFER TO INTER MIAMI As Lionel Messi raised the World Cup triumphantly into the air, the world watched on in awe. Messi's final peak conquered; his final dream achieved. It was the fairy tale ending to a glittering career. Yet despite delivering Argentina their third World Cup, Messi's time at Paris Saint-Germain came to a dramatic conclusion, and Miami awaited the Argentinian legend. Guillem Balagué has had unprecedented access to Messi's inner circle including the player himself: his coaches, team-mates and family. From tracing the origins of Messi's precocious talent in Rosario, Argentina, to chronicling his peerless seventeen-season career at Barcelona, and his tumultuous Parisian adventure, Guillem takes us behind-the-scenes of Messi's World Cup triumph and his long-desired move to the MLS. This is an epic, authoritative and compelling account of an enigmatic footballing genius. 'I can tell my grandkids one day that I coached Lionel Messi' Pep Guardiola

Download or read book 1000 Football Shirts O P written by Bernard Lions and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most comprehensive collection ever assembled of iconic football shirts, featuring more than 1,000 illustrations representing 100 countries and 500 teams. In addition to detailing the colourful histories behind legendary shirts, this book also highlights the key players of important matches and celebrates memorable victories. Inside you'll discover why Pelé wore number 10, why the Italian national team plays in blues, and why the us women's team boasts two stars on its jersey. Football shirts have always been of paramount importance to the game, creating a unique visual identity for each national and club team. Open this book and you'll travel around the world and through time in 1,000 shirts, from Arsenal to Zenit, finding the most loved, most beautidul and most off-the-wall shirts along the way." --Cover.

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Download or read book Looking for Rachel Wallace written by Robert B. Parker and published by Dell. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing.”—The New York Times Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete. Privately, they will never see eye to eye. But when Rachel vanishes. Spenser is ready to lay his life on the line—to find Rachel Wallace. “A rare kind of book.”—Chicago Sun-Times

Download or read book Messi vs Ronaldo written by Luca Caioli and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MBAPP É AND MESSI, NEYMAR, RONALDO For years, a personal battle has defined top-level European football – Messi vs Ronaldo. A rivalry like no other. Since they were first pitted against each other in 2007, the two men's domination of the record books has been unparalleled. They continue to divide opinion but one thing is beyond doubt: this is football's greatest ever head-to-head. Luca Caioli draws on the exclusive testimonies of managers, teammates, friends and family to tell the inside story of this momentous rivalry. Includes all the action from the 2017/18 season and the 2018 World Cup