Books with title Football's Record Breakers

The Golden State Warriors' pursuit of the Chicago Bulls' record for regular season wins captivated the basketball world, as did the Warriors' record-setting win streak to open the same season. Fans marveled, just as they had in earlier years as Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Wilt Chamberlain set records that some fans consider unbreakable. Here are pro basketball's greatest records and the stories of the teams and players who have held, chased, and broken them.

From the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship to the record-breakers of Serie A, the Bundesliga and the Premier League, football's goal scoring, trophy winning and legendary stars are here. Football Record Breakers is packed with thousands of eye-popping stats about incredible trophy-winning teams and goalscorer from around the globe, and contains all the need-to-know facts and figures from the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

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 goalscorers from around the globe, and contains all the need-to-know facts and figures from the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

"The best athletes in the world train to make the Olympics every four years, and it is almost inevitable that some type of record will either be tied or broken during the games. As athletes from around the world hone their skills for the ultimate competition, records are bound to fall. The record might be an Olympic standard that falls in one event, or it may be a number of records that get broken at any given Summer Games. American swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games, and American swimmer Michael Phelps won eight at the 2008 Beijing Games. Spitz retired at just twenty-two after Munich, while Phelps went to four Olympics and won twenty-eight medals, with twenty-three of them gold - both records. Sometimes an athlete can achieve something that has never been done before, or they might match one record and go on to further Olympic achievements like Carl Lewis did in four Olympic appearances. The Olympics often see world records set that stand several years, or even decades. Some marks that are solely Olympic records have stood more than thirty years. There are teams that have broken records like USA women's beach volleyball and China table tennis, or individual athletes who, like Americans Wilma Rudolph in 1960 or Bob Beamon in 1968, gave memorable performances. Some athletes, like Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, achieved perfection, and others, like American Greg Louganis, got redemption after what appeared to be a crushing setback. Usain Bolt, the Flying Finn, Jesse Owens and Flo-Jo are all names that are also etched in Olympic history because they did things that no human had ever done before - they were record breakers"--