Here and now for the first time is your comprehensive guide to the great game of soccer (also known as football). Comedy legend John Cleese hosts this A–Z look at soccer's greatest kicks, goals, saves, bloopers, plays and penalties of all time, as well as soccer's influence on culture (including the famous Monty Python sketch, "Philosophy Football").

Featuring interviews with pop culture icons Dave Stewart, Dennis Hopper and Henry Kissinger, as well as soccer greats, including Pelé, Mia Hamm and Thierry Henry, The Art of Soccer is loaded with everything you could ever possibly want… and John Cleese.