Football (Soccer) category: 2112 books
MIKE's FREE Soccer Sports Comic Book
Volume 6
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Known as football throughout the non-American sports universe, soccer boasts its own unique language, eccentric expressions and unparalleled personalities.
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport by a long shot, even in spite of its peculiarities. For example:
Soccer keeps time...
The Matters of Life, Death, and More
Writing on Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“The genius of Aleksandar Hemon’s prose is a well-established, universally acknowledged fact. But his ability to read a soccer match—to really, deeply understand it—will strike readers with the force of pure, ecstatic revelation. His essays on the game are the very definition of pleasure.”...
by Gérard Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Soccer coaches across all levels of the game share a common and simple dilemma: how best to improve their players. One of the best ways to do this is through improved communication and how we individualize our messages to our players. It’s fundamentally important for coaches to provide quality communication...
Soccer in a Football World
The Story of America's Forgotten Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
David Beckham’s arrival in Los Angeles represents the latest attempt to jump-start soccer in the United States where, David Wangerin says, it “remains a minority sport.” With the rest of the globe so resolutely attached to the game, why is soccer still mostly dismissed by Americans?
Calling...
The Containment of Soccer in Australia
Fencing Off the World Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, outdoor soccer was the second most popular organized sport for Australian children after swimming. It far outstripped the popularity of the three other football codes that are played in Australia – rugby league, rugby union and Australian Rules football.
Yet...
by Ray Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
World Cups throw up unique tactical variations. Countries and football cultures from around the globe converge, in one place, to battle it out for world soccer supremacy. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil was no different, arguably throwing up tactical differences like never seen at a competition in modern...
God is Round
Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World's Favorite Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
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A brilliant, kaleidoscopic exploration of soccer—and the passion, hopes, rivalries, superstitions, and global solidarity it inspires—from award-winning author and Mexico’s leading sports journalist, Juan Villoro. On a planet where FIFA has more members than the United Nations and...
by Ray Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Soccer is in transition. There is now a growing trend away from 'drills', towards sessions that are more variable and which involve more decision making. But coaches have one burning question - how?The ‘Deliberate Soccer Practice’ series shows coaches how to evolve their coaching...
Fantasy Soccer
The Ultimate "How-to" Guide for Fantasy Soccer Players
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
No other book covers fantasy soccer in such detail. Perfect for the beginner and experienced footballer. A great gift for the soccer (football) fan in your life. The first book to comprehensively describe fantasy soccer and tell you how to win your league championship!
Answers these questions:...
by Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Whilst corruption and organized crime have been widely researched, they have not yet been specifically linked to sport. Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer offers an original insight into this new research area. Adopting a psycho-social approach based mainly on Pierre Bourdieu's praxeology,...
Finn McCool's Football Club
The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where "football" means something entirely different than what it does back home. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool's pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats,...
by Gioacchino Roberto Di Maio
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The following work has as its object of study what are the main characteristics of the language of football, being considered as a special language, has specific properties .
The interest in this topic stems from my passion for the world of football, which sees me assiduously engaged in various...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The extremist guide to winning the soccer game! Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Be A Success At Soccer! Simply put, soccer involves a game of 22 players running around with one football while trying to score as many goals as possible. This is a game which has been able to cause quite...
The Country of Football
Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the...