ESPN World Cup Companion: Everything You Need to Know About the Planet's Biggest Sports Event - Tapa dura

Published to coincide with the 2010 World Cup, a fan's chronicle profiles every World Cup competition since 1930 while listing highlights of best and worst players, top teams and most noteworthy rivalries, in a volume that also discusses cultural aspects of the game.

David Hirshey is the Executive Editor of HarperCollins Publishers and was a longtime editor at Esquire magazine. A former college player, he has been covering soccer for more than 30 years for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the New York Daily News, ESPN The Magazine, and Deadspin.com. He is the co-author of two books, Pele's New World and The Education of an American Soccer Player, and played himself (almost convincingly) in the acclaimed soccer documentary Once In A Lifetime.
 
Roger Bennett has written books about music, culture, and sport and articles for outlets including ESPN the Magazine, ESPN.com, The New Republic, No Mas, and the Manchester Guardian.   His documentary film, Sons of Sakhnin, followed two years in the life of the first Arab soccer team to become champions of Israel.