Football category: 4223 books

The 1930s saw the birth of the football idol - prototype for today's powerful media sport stars. The players of the 1930s were the first generation of professionals, yet until recently the life and careers of footballers of this generation has been little studied. In 1930s Britain, football...

Somewhere in a parallel universe there is another Robert Banks, who is a season ticket holder at Manchester United and is a highly successful novel writer and adored by everyone in the world, regardless of footballing, religious or racial denomination. But is he happy? You bet the hell he is. But...

A coach transported to the field in a hearse as he played dead. An English manager taken at gunpoint to an Argentinian jail after trying to sign that country's World Cup captain. The hero of 1966 who talked his team out of going on strike on the eve of a title decider. All are part of the British...

In May 1988 Wolverhampton Wanderers featured in a Wembley cup final. This final brought together two of the orginal founders of the Football League, with both clubs having illustrious footballing histories.Both Wolves and Burnley were a million miles from their heyday and found themselves playing...

Wolverhampton Wanderers FC was founded in 1877 as St Luke's Football Club, and became one of the founding members of the Football League. The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers tells the story of the formative years of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, with particular reference to the lives and actions...

The author takes the reader on a journey into the evolution of America’s modern day Gladiators. Within the pages of this fascinating no holds barred book, is an interesting psychological perspective on football that’s never been told before. This book is a thought provoking and insightful work...

This is the most comprehensive book ever written on the subject of youth football tryouts and evaluating players. All tryout and player evaluation drills are explained in great detail. The book shows how to create a spreadsheet that will produce a power ranking of each player based on his performance during the tryouts.This book is written by a coach for coaches.

The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endless media attention. The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday. Making it to the NFL, however, is not about the promised...

A critique of how the USA, the richest country in the world, became mediocre on the world stage of men's football (soccer), and how to get from here to become #1 in the world for both the men and the women.

This is the true story of a football fan so desperate to follow his team, he decides to hitchhike all over the British Isles to watch them.It starts with a ‘Road to Damascus’ conversion to football fanaticism and then takes in the terror and discomfort of football hooliganism in the 1970s...

This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the countries studied.

In 1967 Celtic manager Jock Stein stepped from the tunnel of Lisbon's Estadio Nacional and took up a position pitch-side as his team of home-grown players ran out to face the might of Inter Milan, the charismatic superstars of Italian football, in the European Cup final. Celtic were a team forged...

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and...

For newly independent readers who want fun, fun, fun and football. Hot Shots FC are a group of friends who have entered themselves into the minor football leagues. They need a coach, they get a coach, alas, the wrong kind of coach. Now the team have to get rid of the coach before he ruins their chances...