Discover the world's best teams and biggest competitions with the ultimate visual guide to soccer, fully updated for the 2018 World Cup. Whether you are an active player, a lifelong supporter, or an armchair soccer manager, this book illustrates every aspect of soccer. It explores the roles of players, equipment, team formations, strategies, and individual skills, while maps, quotes, and statistics give you all of the key facts on national teams, famous club sides, and iconic players, as well as the greatest competitions around the world.

Title of previous editions: Soccer book : the sport, the teams, the tactics, the cups.

Introduction -- The world's game -- How the game is played -- Teamwork -- Individual skills -- Planet soccer. Europe: UEFA -- South America: Conmebol -- North and Central America and the Caribbean: CONCACAF -- Asia and Oceania: AFC and OFC -- The competitions. The World Cup -- Continental competitions -- The records.