Football (Soccer) category: 2112 books

This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds...

‘Football is a game with 22 players, two linesmen and 20,000 referees.’ Bob Monkhouse Treat your mates to a hearty half-time chuckle with this mini-collection of football humour – the very best quips and quotes for lovers of the beautiful game.

After a decade in football wilderness, weighed down by the legacy of unmatched domestic and European successes in the 1970s and ’80s, Liverpool Football Club – under new French coach Gérard Houllier and forward-looking chief executive, Rick Parry – face up to the huge challenge of building...

Fußball-Club Bayern München  e.V., commonly known as FC Bayern, FC Bayern München or FC Bayern  Munich,  is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football...

Football Grounds: A Fan’s Guide is essential reading for any supporter who intends following their team away from home during the forthcoming 2018/19 season. Covering all 92 football grounds of the English Premier and Football Leagues plus, new for this edition, the 24 teams from the National League...

Punk Football tells the story of how supporters have made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Initially intrigued by the rise of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned club set up after Wimbledon FC's relocation to Milton Keynes, Jim Keoghan was drawn into a world in which ordinary...

The long-overlooked story of a number of adventurous Britons who left their homeland before the First World War to inspire and shape the growth of modern football in continental Europe and South America. Drawn from widely different backgrounds, their motivations and contributions were diverse - helping...

Quand un sport devient la passion d'un pays tout entierC’est une évidence : la prochaine Coupe du monde de football au Brésil va être l’occasion pour l’équipe nationale de se mettre une nouvelle fois en valeur. La Seleçao est largement favorite. Comme toujours. Comme si le ballon rond était...

Et un, et deux, et trois zéro ! Si nous vous disons qu'il s'agit d'un sport universel, d'un sport mythique, d'un sport de légende qui fait vibrer des millions de personnes tous les 4 ans, à quoi pensez-vous ? Au football bien sûr ! Il était temps pour les Nuls de rendre hommage...

The second volume of the extremely popular 101 Youth Football Coaching Sessions. Written by celebrated football coaches Tony Charles and Stuart Rook, this new volume will contain 101 brand new warm-ups, skills training, games and final practice drills, with a linking system for each exercise...

A book born out of a once in a lifetime trip to Istanbul. Follow one mans life bound by his passion for Liverpool FC. Watch the Hillsborough and Heysel disasters unfold in front of his very eyes, and see how Istanbul heralds an end to his old life and a start to his new life. The journey takes in the...

Despite its immense wealth, and the high public profile it enjoys, English football is not a land of milk and honey. The national side has won the World Cup only once when England staged the tournament in 1966 and the woeful performances in recent years would suggest that Sir Alf Ramsey's success...

The universal language of football has provided fans all over the world with memories to cherish for the rest of their lives. Football fans are really one of the same animal, that being a devoted die hard bunch who follow their team through thick and thin, one day hoping for that glorious moment that...

Over the past 50 years Luton Town have been rocked by twelve calamities. Each of them threatened the very future of the club. Trouble and strife have become a way of life at Kenilworth Road. But in the summer of 2008 the Hatters suffered a crisis of catastrophic proportions. An unprecedented 30 points...