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1) El fútbol
Author
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
16 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"In this book, beginning readers are introduced to the soccer field, rules of play, and equipment and gear. High-frequency words and repetitive sentence patterns work together with strong visual references to support the earliest readers and create a fun first nonfiction reading experience. Soccer includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers, a Let's Review! question and image, and introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents,...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
Junio 2018.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Una novela que revela los escándalos del mundo del fútbol jamás contados. Un thriller futbolístico que comienza con la muerte del delantero estrella de un club donde todos parecen tener un motivo para matar. Una voz fresca, sin complejos y con un don extraordinario para tejer un buen thriller."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
45 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 21 cm.
Description
A tribute to soccer explains how it serves to unite different cultures throughout the world, tracing the experiences of the author and his friend as they take a Mexican soccer and sightseeing tour.
Publisher
Lolafilms Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A former football star finds himself weighing difficult options in Spain after the Civil War. Once the goalie for a championship soccer team in Madrid, but as Spain struggles to get back on its feet following the Civil War, he's reduced to traveling the countryside, hustling money from strangers who think they can get a penalty kick past him. He finds himself in a small Asturian town, where he becomes infatuated with a single mother who watches over...
Author
Series
Locos por el fútbol volume 8
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
125 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The soccer team Los Lobos prepares for the most important game of the season, the Cup final, but Frank is preoccupied by changes in his parents' relationship.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Do you know how a poor boy from Brazil who loved futbol more than anything else became the biggest soccer star the world has ever known? Turn the pages of this book to read the true life story of Pele, King of Soccer, the first man in the history of the sport to score a thousand goals and become a living legend.
Formats
Description
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
10) Invincible
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Pedro would love to be the goalie in the team's first game, but another boy is bigger--so all of Pedro's friends help him practice goaltending before the tryout.
12) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
65 pages : illustratons ; 20 cm.
Description
After breaking his arm during the first day of try-outs last season, Robby is determined to make the football team this year, but to do so he must face his own fears and the bully who tackled him the year before.
14) Victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
50,000 fans are on hand for a match in occupied Paris between German all-stars and a pick-up team of Allied POWs. In an attempt to demonstrate the Aryan superiority, the Germans unwittingly set up a means of prisoner escape.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Castillo
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
52 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Poka wants to play football (soccer), even after she is told that it is a boy's game. She joins a team and succeeds in learning to play and win. On the way home, she blurts out "I want to try ballet!"
Mina quiere jugar futbol y decide anotarse en un equipo. Poka no sólo la acompaña a registrarse, sino también a conseguir el uniforme y al primer día de entrenamiento. Allí descubren que Mina es la única chica en el equipo y, durante la práctica,...
16) Undefeated
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a high school football team from inner-city Memphis, Tennessee, and the coach who hopes to turn the team around. No hope. No future. Until a football season united a team and revealed the character that turned them into heroes. Undefeated is the inspiring and moving tale of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach, Bill Courtney, trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field.
17) Furia
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her....
19) Real Madrid CF
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Learn about the history of legendary Spanish club Real Madrid. The title features a timeline, a glossary, and the author's all-time dream team."--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Almuzara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"¿Por qué vestimos de azulgrana? o ¿por qué el FCB es més que un club? ¿Cómo surgió el apelativo Barça? ¿Quiénes fueron los ídolos futbolísticos de nuestros abuelos? ¿Cuál es el curioso origen del Dream Team? ¿Fue Gamper el primer presidente? ¿Qué ocurrió en realidad en torno al fichaje de Di Stéfano? ¿Cuáles han sido las jugadas más apoteósicas de la epopeya culé? ¿Cómo pasamos de disputar partidos en campos de fútbol...
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