Football: The Impossible Collection

Assouline's coffee-table book ‘Football: The Impossible Collection’ summarizes the world's most popular sport in 100 defining moments, not only the greatest, but also those with the greatest cultural impact. The beautiful game. No sport has ever captured the imagination so completely, or united so many millions of people across borders, languages and generations.

Led by the authoritative voice of Rory Smith, for many years soccer correspondent for The New York Times, the collection chronologically traverses the sport's extraordinary history: from Pelé's arrival on American soil to Messi's long-awaited crowning achievement at the 2022 World Cup, from the birth of the Premier League to Zinedine Zidane's infamous tantrum on the world's biggest stage. Across borders, genders and leagues, these are the foci that have not only defined soccer. They have defined us.

True to Assouline's commitment to the object as an art form, the book comes in a sculptural, rubberized clamshell cover, with a hardcover in a striking field green that makes the iconic black-and-white ball pop off the surface. The three-dimensional soccer ball in the center is not an embellishment; it is a statement. With the 2026 World Cup coming up, there has never been a more exciting time to have this book in your hands. For anyone who has ever felt the pull of the beautiful game, it is downright indispensable.

Specifications
Title: Football: The Impossible Collection
Author: Rory Smith
Publisher: Assouline
Size: 410 x 480 x 100 mm
Size: 236 pages
Weight: 12 Kg
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781649806505

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