Written in an informative yet accessible style to appeal to young readers, this fun-packed guide is bursting with features on the tournament's teams, star players, stadiums and cities, and contains all that young fans need to know about the World Cup. Bursting with 100 amazing action-packed photos, this fantastic book includes a preview of the 2010 FIFA World Cup as well as profiles of all of the tournament's star players. Fill-in the progress chart and solve the many fun puzzles and quizzes all based around the World Cup.

Nothing beats the sporting spectacle of the FIFA World Cup and this official junior guide contains everything young readers need to become true 2010 FIFA World Cup experts. They can study the easy-to-follow World Cup team analysis and star player profiles, and absorb the brilliant big match photographs in what is the only official FIFA endorsed 2010 World Cup junior companion. Illustrated with 100 amazing images and appealing to all ages, this fantastic book includes analysis of each of the qualified teams as well as profiles of all of the tournament's star players including Kaka, Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi and Fernando Torres. Meet Zakumi the leopard, the official FIFA World Cup 2010 mascot, read the special features on the tournament's stadiums and fans, fill-in the progress chart and solve the many fun puzzles and quizzes all based around the World Cup. The official 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Fact File is guaranteed to keep any junior fan entertained throughout the entire World Cup tournament.

This groundbreaking book provides a critically informed analysis of the impact and legacy of mega-sporting events through the lens of South Africa's 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and its associated developmental paradigm. It challenges mainstream thinking and mega-event praise singers by providing concrete evidence to show that this sporting spectacular was little more than a front for massive accumulation and extraction of wealth, alongside increased sporting and socio-economic inequality. Contributors to this volume examine the sports accumulation-complex, economic promises, construction companies, trade unions, strikes, international solidarity, the struggle to trade, sex work, climate change, as well as case studies on the building of individual soccer stadiums. Eddie Cottle is the regional policy and campaign officer of the Building and Wood Workers' international (BWI) for Africa and the Middle East. This is a timely reminder that the 2010 World Cup nation-building illusion in fact disguised a reality of greed, elite enrichment and nepotism - and left us with a terrible financial hangover.' Terry Bell, columnist at Independent Newspapers, Business Report, and independent economic/labour analyst Book jacket.

THE DEFINITIVE, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT FOOTBALL 'Football conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The Independent There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of football's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport. The Ball Is Round illuminates football's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game. ___________________________________ 'Goldblatt writes with authority, humour, and passion, not least in the accounts of famous or significant matches scattered throughout the book' Times Literary Supplement 'Since it became a worldwide phenomenon, nobody has attempted to write an overall history of the game. Now David Goldblatt's stunning book will be the measure against which all other such volumes are judged' The Guardian 'Goldblatt's magnum opus . . . Anyone with a brain and an interest in football will enjoy this book' The Daily Telegraph (London)