press clip [22/05/2012] “three lions. England: History & Statistics (1872-2012)” Daniel Reverter, Sid Lowe (prologue), Juanma Rodríguez (illustrations) 100 pages - Colour | Onze nº 2 | Price: 12,75€
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On sale from 28 May 2012: • At news stands and bookshops in towns with English population in the Costa Blanca (Comunitat Valenciana) • For the rest of the world, at www.oronella.com, with free delivery
The definivite guide with all of England’s national team’s statistics. • The book has a preface by Sid Lowe and includes 12 illustrations by the painter Juanma Rodríguez • On sale from 20th May at www.oronella.com. You can buy it now, if you don’t want to go without one. On the 30 November 1872, at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow, the first official international game was played. England and Scotland pinched the 4,000 spectators from the spice of this sport, and the game finished goaless. Little could those 22 pioneering football players, nor the 4,000 spectators, imagine that, with the passing of time, football would mobilize millions of people around the world. Nine years before this first international game, England had given modern football its papers with the creation of the Football Association (1863) and the rules of the game that, with some changes, still govern international and domestic competitions. Barely three months later, at the Kennington Oval, England defeated Scotland by 4-2 and Kenyon-Slaney, aged 25, became England’s first goalscorer. The rivalry with Scotland lasts until today and is, as a matter of fact, the opponent that England has faced on more occasions. England’s team’s history was marked by their rivalry with the rest of Home Nations in the British Home Championship, that started in 1884, and England did not face any squad from outside the Isles until 1908, in a summer tour that took them to Austria, Hungary and Bohemia. Football’s founding father’s superiority was overwhelming, scoring a total of 27 goals for 2 against, in just 4 games. The first team from outside the Isles to visit England was Belgium in 1923, defeated in Highbury by 6-1. England did not lose a game against a continental squad until 1929, when they were defeated 4-3 by the Spain of the wizard Gaspar Rubio in Madrid. More painful was England’s disappointing first appearance in a World Cup, where they didn’t manage to get past the first stage. And, above all, the first home defeat against a non-British team, in 1953. Football had started to get tighter, and an astonishing Hungarian squad thrashed England 3-6 at Wembley, 90 years after the foundation of the Football Association. Suddenly, the world of football doubted England’s hegemony, after early World Cup exits in Switzerland, Sweden and Chile, and not managing to qualify for the European Championship in Spain. page 1/2
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Charlton, Moore & co’s victory in the 1966 World Cup made it look like things were back in their place, but not for long. The fathers of modern football are still waiting for a stroke of fate. The whole of England expects, as a matter of fact. The autors. Dani Reverter, a Valencian of English origin, has compiled, collating various sources, the statistic corpus that England’s national team needed to understand, in perspective, its 140 years of history. A history of many sorrows, yes, but undoubtedly exciting: all the matches (date, venue, score, goalscorers) organized by competition, all the goalscorers, the managers, the capped players, the honours, the historical table against all their opponents... He has also focused on the team’s most important games. Painter Juanma Rodríguez (Valencia, 1969), working on historical photos, has recreated with his brush 12 important moments of the team’s history. And journalist Sid Lowe has put the icing on the cake with a fantastic preface in which he unravels the passions awakened by the English national team. Specially shortly before the upcoming European Championship of Poland and Ucraine. L’Oronella Since 1995. L’Oronella publishing house, with more than 200 titles in catalogue since 1995, has an extensive experience in publishing books on football, specially those dedicated to Levante UD –see web page–. Through the Onze collection, we open up to new horizons and wanted to do it dedicating a volume (in English) to England’s national team, the pioneers of World football, and another one (in Spanish), to the Spanish national team, current World Champion.. + info oronella@oronella.com | www.oronella.com
One of the illustrations by Juanma Rodríguez page 2/2
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