Everything about FIFA World Cup

The book will reveal you with the things that you wanted to know about the Fifa World Cup, but did not ask, thus the author Novy Kapadia, takes a reader on an inclusive tour of the previous 19.  This external guide which has arrived ahead of the 20th FIFA World Cup.

The book tells the insider story of  FIFA and how much it is liked by the people from all across the globe. It is estimated that around 909.6 million people watched some portions of the 2010 football World Cup final on their television systems. “Additional out-of-home viewers,” a television audience statement created for FIFA said, “are likely to have pushed the total reach to over one billion.” KantarSport, the media-research company that authored the document, also exposed that coverage of the championship contest held in all “reached over 3.2 billion people around the world – 46.4 per cent of the global population.”

The football world cup is such a sporting event, which I unsurpassed by all other sports. From the shantytowns of Accra to idyllic cafés in the Alps, people are obsessive by the same passion and excitement for the tournament. It has been declared that on June 12, the blinds will go up on an additional edition of football’s merry quadrennial jamboree and this time it is in Brazil, a country not so much a support of the sport as a cathedral.

In The Football Fanatic’s Essential Guide has come out in advance prior to the 20th FIFA World Cup, as Novy Kapadia makes an attempt to enable the reader to embark on a complete expedition of the previous 19. A popular football announcer on Indian television, Kapadia commences with the origins of the tournament, leading to the twisting way through the years; from Uruguay 1930, when four European teams grudgingly travelled by sea to remote Montevideo, past the heat of Mexico 1970 and a fascinating Brazil side’s intensity 12 summers later, to the first African World Cup in 2010.

On the way, there is plenty of  drama and deception, not the least of which is supplied by India’s withdrawal from the 1950 edition. Kapadia writes some engaging and interesting points about the journey in FIFA at some length, and grieves over the so called “missed opportunity”.  The footballers of India declined the invitation only due to the fact that they preferred to play barefoot – conflicting to FIFA’s rules of wearing shoes – is a misapprehension, he bickers. He pens down “The apprehension that Indian players would have been out of depth because they had to wear football boots is exaggerated. It has just become a self-perpetuating myth”. In reality, there are quite a million factors which have contributed to the decision, as Kapadia believes, with India let slip a chance to turn into a top international side.

For all its delight and splendor, the World Cup is no stranger to on-field hostility and a number of its scuffles – the Battle of Santiago, the Battle of Berne, the Battle of Nuremberg – find a citation in the book. Other matters of disagreement have also been touched in the book  – Diego Maradona’s positive ephedrine test and ban, West Germany’s genial, mutually beneficial 1-0 win over Austria (the ‘Disgrace of Gijon’ they called it), and Geoff Hurst’s goal in 1966.

The author has contributed to the society  with the reference material with everything, including dates, outcomes and fallouts, location and setting and detail on significant games from every World Cup.

Trivia and numbers also make it to a special section to indulge the anorak – long tables on penalties, yellow-cards, referees, attendances, goals scored or conceded, games won or lost.

Brazil 2014 is on the verge to get a chapter of its own at the end, with the groups previewed and the fixtures scheduled. The setting and climax of this World Cup is appearing like a long one; yet much fun is predicted out of it.

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