Publisher's Synopsis
It has been said that, if aliens came to Earth, and happened to end up in a crowded soccer stadium, they would find it easy to understand the rules of the game, and would quickly become so engrossed in the match, that they would postpone all thoughts of conquest till they had taken this new and exciting sport back to their home planet.
Whether this is true or not (perhaps aliens have already observed us at length and created their own version of the EPL), it is definitely true that the barrier to entry for a new football fan is much lower than the barrier to entry in just about any other sport ever invented. There is a reason why it is so universally popular. By a very large margin, this is the most popular sport in the world. Indeed, so strong is the hold of this sport over the hearts and minds of its billions of players and hundreds of millions of fans and TV watchers, that projections have it ruling the roost for at least the next five hundred years. This sport has won the hearts and feet of billions of small children across the world over the past ten decades. There is a magic about the simple rule set and fast paced action that have kept this at the apex of every global sport by some distance. There is no league anywhere that has captured the collective global consciousness as powerfully as has the English Premier League. The English Premier League has taken football to the masses: this is probably the most popular sports league of all time worldwide, and fans from every single one of the hundreds of countries in the world watch with bated breath as the greatest football players in the world compete for glory. One ingredient that makes the EPL so great is the foreign players who enrich the league with their talent - with jaw-dropping goals, close saves, breathtakingly creative plays, and cultural diversity. This book celebrates the overseas talent in the English Premier League over the past few decades. All of us know about the impact that legends like Thierry Henry, Didier Drogba, David Silva, Dennis Bergkamp, and GIanfranco Zola have had on the overall quality of play and entertainment in the English Premier League. In this book, you will be presented with interesting and clever puzzle challenges in different formats to guide you towards guessing the identities of some of the greatest foreign EPL players of all time. Join your fellow fans as you puzzle your way through multiple hints about each football player, and approach the final clue about the name of each player to achieve success! Once you master the puzzles in this book, you would have achieved the perfect fusion of body, mind, and spirit - you will feel the thrill of guessing the names of household names in the sport, and your brain would have had a thorough workout as well. Multiple helpful hints are provided for each puzzle, so that you will never be left high and dry. The answers are also given - this will make sure that, even for the few players whose names you cannot guess, you leave the clue with a thorough education about a player whose achievements make him worth following. You will learn as you play! Next time someone tells you that you're wasting your time whenever you watch football, tell them about this book! It exercises your brain, and develops your intellect, all while focusing on the world's most popular sport of all time - Football! You can use this book either as a solo exercise puzzle book, where you go through it whenever you are bored - the amount of content in it will keep you entertained, happy, and busy for dozens of hours! You can also use it as the basis for a few fun evenings with friends of yours who are also football fans - the unique formats in the book make it very suitable for group guessing, or games where teams compete against each other in a trivia bowl or trivia night contest setting. You can also use it at the local bar or pub.
