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A large, dark green Assouline coffee table book, Football: The Impossible Collection, featuring a three-dimensional soccer ball centered on the cover, celebrating iconic football moments.
A dark green Football: The Impossible Collection Assouline coffee table book with the word FOOTBALL printed vertically on the spine and a small soccer ball attached to the front cover, capturing iconic World Cup moments.
Open book from Football: The Impossible Collection displaying a quote on the left page and a black-and-white photograph of a female soccer player celebrating a World Cup moment on the right page.
An open copy of Football: The Impossible Collection by Assouline displaying a panoramic black-and-white photograph of a classic World Cup football match in a stadium.
Assouline

Football: The Impossible Collection

$1,400.00
Description

Our Take On It

Football. Fußball. Fútbol. The Beautiful Game. No sport has ever captured the human imagination quite so completely or united so many millions across borders, languages and generations.

Football: The Impossible Collection distills the sport into 100 defining moments, not simply the greatest but the most culturally seismic. Guided by the authoritative voice of Rory Smith, longtime football correspondent for The New York Times, the collection moves chronologically through the sport's extraordinary arc: from Pelé's arrival on American soil to Messi's long-awaited coronation at the 2022 World Cup, from the birth of the Premier League to Zinedine Zidane's infamous fury on the world's grandest stage. Across borders, genders and leagues, these are the flashpoints that didn't just define football. They defined us.

True to Assouline's commitment to the object as art form, the volume arrives in a sculptural rubber-like clamshell case, its hardcover rendered in a bold field-green that makes the iconic black-and-white ball leap from the surface. The three-dimensional football at its center is not decoration; it is a declaration. For those who have ever felt the pull of the beautiful game, it is nothing less than essential. 

 

The Details (Are Everything)

  • 236 Pages
  • Hardcover
  • English language
  • Released in May 2026
  • W 16 x L 19 x D 4”
  • 26.4 lb


Designer SKU: 9781649806505

 

About Brand

Guided by a passion for knowledge, culture and travel, Assouline has a grand oeuvre of inspiring books for readers to develop bespoke, one-of-a-kind libraries under the umbrella of true luxury and savoir faire.

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