13 June,2010 08:42 AM IST | | Team SMD
That's the number of pages you get to devour stacked with breathtaking visuals and dope on the most promising players, stats you didn't know and the toughest trials to the World Cup finals. World Cup 2010 Superstars is just out, and we are telling you how you can take home free copies
If you missed a heartbeat when Zinedine Zidane was given a red card in the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany, the last two days must have been far from boring.
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Off with their heads: Pg 205
Spain's Ruben Baraja gets head to ball to score from a free kick but the
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It's a wet dream: pg 44-45
On the wet and windy night of October 10, 2009, Argentina scored a 94th-minute
win against Peru to ensure they still had a chance of World Cup qualification.
Had the game been drawn, the players would have had to struggle for a place
in the play-offs
When you get time off from catching FIFA on the tube, flip through the pages of the just-launched World Cup 2010 Superstars. Authored by one-time ballboy for Watford FC-turned-journalist Paul Fisher, and published by UK-based picture book giant Parragon, this is a high-on-visuals hardback packed with team details and tricks, past performances and how they've affected this time's line-up, players to watch out for, with facts and vital stats few know. And yes, special style guides and the entire schedule.
1 above the rest: pg 212
Fernando Torres of Spain rises above the New Zealand greenhorns to
score the final goal in a 3-0 Confederations Cup match in June 2009
Tummy of God: pg 46
Diego Maradona celebrates the goal against Peru that saved his (Argentina)
manager's job and kept his team in the 2010 World Cup
Free falling: pg 52
Lionel Messi's extraordinary balance has him wriggling free of a Peruvian
challenge
The go-between: pg 81
England's Gerrard (middle), Hryhory Yarmash and Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
at England's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine, on April 1, 2009
The adrenalin-packed shots, like that of a jubilant Argentinian squad dripping wet on the windy night of October 10, after scoring a 94th minute goal against Peru to ensure a World Cup qualification, are worth the 695 bucks you'll spend on a copy. There's the game, there's the gloss, and it shouldn't take you more than 90 minutes to make it!
World Cup 2010 Superstars, published by Parragon, will be out at bookstores soon. Priced at Rs 695
