Soccer category: 2494 books
by Brian Wingate, Jeremy Cooperson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Whatever you know the sport as—soccer, fútbol, football, or association football—it is the world’s most popular team sport. And the World Cup, played every four years, is the world’s most popular sporting event. But that’s on the global stage. As everyone who plays or watches soccer knows,...
by Dirk McLean
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
When Ozzie's parents disappeared from their home in Nigeria, he and his sister Rebecca were taken to an orphanage. Two years later, they have been adopted by Canadian parents and live in ethnically diverse Scarborough. With no soccer program in their school, Ozzie and the other Nigerian kids compete...
by David Starr
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Thirteen-year-old Dylan's whole life changes when his father dies. Not only do he and his mom have to move to a poor part of Vancouver, where he misses their nice home and his old school. But then he's also forced to join his new school's soccer team — a group of immigrant and refugee students who...
by Peter Sís
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Three-time Caldecott Honoree Peter Sis rides the rising tide of soccer enthusiasm to score another winner.
Madlenka -- that cosmopolitan little girl whose city block is a world of its own -- is back and ready to play! When she dribbles her brand new soccer ball out the door and around the corner,...
by Rich Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
KICKERS: a young middle grade soccer series
Book 3
It’s a race to the Kickers soccer league play-offs. Nine-year-old Ben is pretty sure that if the Bobcats win two of their last three games, they’ll earn a tournament spot. But in their game against the Tigers, the Bobcats are a mess on the...
All Heart
My Dedication and Determination to Become One of Soccer's Best
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In the summer of 2015, the U.S. women’s national soccer team won the World Cup behind an epic performance by Carli Lloyd. Carli, a midfielder, scored three goals in the first sixteen minutes—the greatest goal-scoring effort in the history of World Cup finals.
But there was a time when Carli...
by Jane O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Nancy Clancy hits the soccer field in New York Times bestselling team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser’s sixth Nancy Clancy chapter book.
Normally, Nancy doesn’t like dressing like everyone else. But wearing a soccer team uniform—well, that’s different!
Nancy adores being...
The Numbers Game
Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet.
Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually...
Outcasts United
An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide.
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American...
How Soccer Explains the World
An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about.”
—The New York Times Book Review
"An insightful, entertaining, brainiac sports road trip."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Foer’s skills as a narrator are enviable. His characterizations…...
The Barcelona Inheritance
The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
From Cruyff's "Total Football" to the epic rivalry between Guardiola and Mourinho, a gripping chronicle of the rise and fall of Barcelona's dominance in world soccer.
Barcelona's style of play--pressing and possessing--is the single biggest influence on modern soccer. In The Barcelona...
The Fix
Soccer and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.
From the Introduction
Understand how gambling fixers work...
Africa United
Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Africa United is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield, the former Africa Correspondent for The Independent, meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, discovering the role that soccer has...
This Love Is Not for Cowards
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border...