Completely New History of the World Cup 1930 -2022 (History of Football)

Completely New History of the World Cup 1930 -2022 (History of Football)

The Completely New History of the World Cup 1930-2022 commences with an obituary of Pele, the most successful World Cup footballer in history. The book contains recently researched scandals, disputes and conspiracy theories concerning all of the twenty-two World Cups which have taken place since the first one in 1930 right up to the recent incredible World Cup in 2022 in Qatar. In 1930, four European countries sent their players on a 20-day steamship sea voyage to Montevideo, the venue of the first World Cup, at that time a city of less than 250,000 people, the capital of Uruguay, whose football team amazingly had travelled, by the same sea route to France and Netherlands in 1924 and 1928 and had succeeded in winning the Olympic Games football tournament on both occasions. The book highlights the World Cup of 1978 which took place whilst Argentina was in the middle of a military revolution in which thousands of Argentinians lost their lives or just "disappeared." It also highlights the background to Maradona's "Hand of God" goal followed five minutes later by his "Goal of the century." in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Each chapter describes a "Watershed moment" in the World Cup of that year and also the career highlights of the coach of the winning team. The book finishes with chapters on the Magical Magyar team of the 1950s which went 42 games undefeated, the amazing Brazilian teams winning five World Cups with their unique brand of football and Mussolini's successful Italian teams of the 1934 and 1938 World Cups.