Product Description

From the dazzling displays of Real Madrid in the early years, including the 7-3 win against Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960, through to Liverpool’s amazing comeback to beat Milan in the 2005 Final, the European Cup / Champions League has provided unforgettable football. Europe United is the most comprehensive history available of the first fifty years of the world’s leading club football competition. Season-by-season narrative and statistical material, including the results of all 4,200 matches, is combined with biographical sketches of great players and managers, plus other features, linking the competition to the wider football context. In the course of this encyclopaedic study of the European Cup / Champions League, Andrew Godsell, whose previous football book, The World Cup, was a massive history of that competition, covers the development of tactics, the disasters at Munich and Heysel, the controversies that have provided dramatic vitality, and the growing influence of commercialism. The book includes extensive quotations from participants, which throw extra light upon events. The text is complemented by photographs, spanning half a century of the beautiful game.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120425 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Daily Echo, November 12 2005
Bible for European Cup. A statistician’s dream, it includes every result since the European Cup began.

BBC Website, December 15 2005
Godsell’s history does a good job, telling the tale from beginnings to the glitz that is the Champions League today.

Four Four Two, December 2005
Celebrating 50 years of Europe’s top club competition.

Customer Reviews

Definitive History of European Cup/Champions League
A very interesting read - all the results and the history of the European Cup. Lots of information and stories I didn't know especailly the early years of the competition. Not sure of the title though 'Europe United'! Highly recommended,