  | Full Text Reviews: Booklist - 09/01/2018 This is an outlandishly detailed overview of soccer: rules, statistics, parlance, teams, strategies, and personalities, served up curriculum-style. Chapters are devoted to subjects such as biology (lots of advice on how not to poop on field during a professional soccer match), zoology (mascots), business (salaries), music (national anthems, chants), drama (celebrations, diving), and even geography. It’s a wide-ranging, engaging conglomeration, with lots of factual information mixed in alongside generous trivia, bad puns, and really stupid jokes. The brief chapters feature pages that are littered with line drawings and word-bubble asides, charts, graphs, and quizzes, all designed to keep readers entertained and engaged. Irreverent, inappropriate, and irresistible, this import from England will attract soccer fans—some, perhaps, who may have been recently indoctrinated due to all the World Cup mania—like a magnet, and entice browsers as well. There’s a sequel already in the works, promising at least some coverage of women’s soccer, so be prepared. - Copyright 2018 Booklist. Loading...
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