Decoubertin Books: 32 books
Liverpool Captains
A Journey of Leadership from the Pitch
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Never before have so many Anfield legends opened up so freely about their personal lives in print. In Liverpool Captains, R. Lund Ansnes meets many of the club's greatest figures; taking you beyond the walls of the training ground and into their homes, uncovering the human impact of leadership. The...
From Delhi to the Den
The Story of Football's Most Travelled Coach
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
From the Cypriot fourth division to the Indian national team, Stephen Constantine's career has taken the scenic route. Ever since leaving his home in Cyprus with nothing at the age of 16, Constantine has been used to life on the road; his sense of adventure dwarfed only by his appetite to improve...
Scunthorpe Hasta La Muerte
The extraordinary journey of English football's Spanish pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In September 1996, Alex Calvo García, a largely unknown Basque footballer arrived in England. Recently released by Eibar in the lower reaches of the Spanish league, the journey represented the 24 year-old's final opportunity to make it as a professional footballer. Without a word of English and at...
The Acid Test
The Autobiography of Clyde Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
On a rainy Sunday in August 1968, Clyde Best, arrived in London for the first time. Not long out of school, he had come for a week long trial with West Ham United, the club with which he had fallen in love while watching the FA Cup final four years previously. It was the 17-year-old's first time away...
Tunnel of Love
Football, Fighting and Failure; Newcastle United after The Entertainers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
By the summer of 1996, Newcastle were officially the second best club in England follow-ing a dramatic race for the Premier League title, with the ambition to become even bigger. They would break the transfer world record by signing the England captain Alan Shearer, ahead of rivals Manchester United,...
World in Motion
The Inside Story of Italia '90
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Italia '90 was the best and worst of World Cups. It made a global star of England's inspirational Paul Gascoigne and gave fresh confidence to English football but it was also the lowest- scoring of all World Cups, leading directly to the back-pass ban that transformed the sport. World In Motion travels...
On the Brink
A Journey Through English Football's North West
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
As the days became shorter and the nights darker, Simon Hughes began a journey through the country's most successful football region during the winter of the 2016/17 English season. Starting in Carlisle and heading south, Hughes went through Barrow, Morecambe and towards the Fylde coast. He trekked...
61 Minutes in Munich
Liverpool FC's First Black Footballer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In April 1981, Howard Gayle was summoned from the substitutes' bench and sent on to play for Liverpool in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final at German champions Bayern Munich. The previous October, by filling the same role at Manchester City, he became the first black footballer in Liverpool's...
by Dave Hickson, James Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2014
Ask any Everton fan whose allegiance stretches back to the 1950s to name their favourite player and the answer will be familiar and enthusiastically uttered: Dave Hickson. Hickson, the only man to turn out for all three Merseyside teams, captivated the city during the decade with his outrageously...
Love Affairs and Marriage
My Life in Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Howard Kendall is one of the greats of English football management and among the defining figures in the history of Everton Football Club. A schoolboy prodigy footballer, he first joined the club from Preston in 1967, forming - with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey -one of the most distinguished midfield...
When Friday Comes
Football, War & Revolution in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
In January 2011 millions of Egyptians took part in mass protests that ended the iron rule of its military dictator, Hosni Mubarak. Across the Middle East, from Algeria to Yemen, millions took to the streets, overthrowing despotic and violent regimes that had clung onto power for generations. Meanwhile,...
Rafa's Way
The Resurrection of Newcastle United
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The noise grew. Everywhere you looked Newcastle fans were on their feet, United, at last, in song. St James' Park was rocking, a noise that carried down from the cathedral at the top of the hill, down through the city. It felt like a celebration. It wasn't. Newcastle – facing Tottenham Hotspur on...
Everton
The School of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
In his highly acclaimed history of one of the country's most distinguished teams, James Corbett traces the fortunes of Everton Football Club - from their humble origins as a church team to the David Moyes era.
Russian Winters
The Story of Andrei Kanchelskis
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Andrei Kanchelskis was one of the stars of the first great side Sir Alex Ferguson built at Old Trafford; the team of warriors that included Peter Schmeichel, Roy Keane, Mark Hughes and Eric Cantona. In Russian Winters, Andrei tells the inside story of his departure from Old Trafford; a departure dogged...