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Leicester City


World Soccer Legends

No. of pages 64

Published: 2017

Great for age 7-10 years

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May 2016 saw Leicester City with the first-ever league win in its 132-year history. Only a year earlier, the team was in last place mid-season and in danger of being bumped to a lower tier. With intense resolve and the arrival of a new coach, Claudio Ranieri, everything changed. Ranieri strategized and celebrated the team's notoriously "simple," counterintuitive playing style. With his encouragement--and highly motivating pizza parties--Leicester City soon had win after win, and jaw after jaw began to drop. Today, experts say this incredible turn of events is not only one of the most amazing achievements in soccer, but one of the most incredible upsets in the history of sports. With an engaging narrative and profiles of key players, Abbeville's Leicester City tells this heartwarming story of perseverance, perfect for any young reader who loves a great David and Goliath story.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called World Soccer Legends .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by Abbeville Press Inc. , U. S. .

Illugi Jokulsson is a writer on sports subjects based in Iceland.

 

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World Soccer Legends

Praise for World Soccer Legends "These books address a largely unfilled niche: short, highly readable biographies of contemporary soccer stars. The texts are printed over and around voluminous, richly printed photographs and include many pages of scoring statistics and league standing. ... Frequent references to great players of the past--Maradona, Pele, Cruyff, Eusebio--lend the books a welcome historical context. ... These entries are excellent."--School Library Journal