This title will give you the story behind records held by such football stars as Peyton Manning, Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, and more. The title also features informative sidebars, fun facts, a glossary, and further resources. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Describes thirteen performances by teams and individual players that set records in professional football.

Peyton Manning's pursuit of Brett Favre's record for career passing yards fascinated football fans, as did Tom Brady's effort to surpass Manning's mark for touchdowns thrown in a single season. Get more of those stories and other tales of pro football's greatest records and the players who have held, chased, and broken them.

From the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championships to the record breakers of Serie A, the Bundesliga and the Premier League, football's record-breaking stars are here. This book is packed with thousands of eye-popping stats about incredible trophy-winning teams and legendary goal scorers from around the globe, and contains all the need-to-know facts and figures from the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The popularity of football is such that it is almost a global language. From the time that British and German troops stopped fighting during World War I to stage an impromptu game of football in no-man's-land, to the wall-to-wall television coverage during major competitions, football fans have something in common. FIFA Official World Football Records 2010 is an indispensable guide to what Pele called "The Beautiful Game". But this is more than just a records book. Complementing the various lists on an incredible range of topics are numerous biographies of football legends, stories behind records and brief reports of famous matches. Country by country all the important facts and statistics can be found.

The creators of the best-selling And the Crowd Goes Wild present an officially endorsed collection of key historical events that combines archival photography with coverage of such famed stories as the Immaculate Reception, the Ice Bowl and the Music City Miracle, in a volume complemented by a 10-part documentary by an Emmy Award-winning team.