Football (Soccer) category: 2112 books
What's Wrong with US?
A Coach’s Blunt Take on the State of American Soccer After a Lifetime on the Touchline
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Outspoken, honest, game changing—ultimate soccer insider and legendary coach Bruce Arena looks back on an extraordinary career, and forward to what the United States needs to do to compete successfully on the world stage once again.
“Arena depicts the human side of managing elite athletes.…...
by Doug Lennox
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Known around the world as football, soccer is the world's most watched and played sport. Now Doug Lennox, the striker of Q&A, scores with a pitch full of tidbits that delivers the goods on Pelé, Maradona, Beckham, Zidane, and other superstars, as well as the history, traditions, and rules of the...
Ajax, the Dutch, the War
The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele in preternatural skill, and Ajax, one of the most influential soccer clubs in the world whose...
Hoolifan
30 Years of Hurt
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Hoolifan is the story of one man, Martin King, and his experiences spanning three decades with the country's foremost soccer gang. Chelsea have always been at the cutting edge of football violence, and King himself was at the heart of the evolving Chelsea mob for some 30 years. From his first visit...
Into the Light
A Complete History of Sunderland Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Into the Light reveals the full thrilling story of Sunderland Football Club - charting the club's progress from being the first great team to dominate the Football League, to the squad which returned to the top of English soccer at the dawn of the new millennium. Hutchinson traces a journey from Newcastle...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world. More than just entertainment, soccer has proved to be a reflection of national, cultural, community and ethnic identity as well as an indication...
Science in Soccer
Translating Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Sports Science and Soccer offers a series of contemporary insights into the multidisciplinary approach to delivering sports science support (physiology, psychology, performance analysis, sociology) from leading academics and practitioners in elite level professional football.
Each chapter includes...
Soccer Offense
Improve Your Team’s Possession and Passing Skills through Top Class Drills
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Do you want to improve your individual or soccer team's offensive game?
This book is your answer.
Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world. It incites passion in players, pundits and supporters and leads to enormous loyalties to followers. It is the simplest of games, but one...
by Tim Tate
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
IN THEIR DAY THEY WERE BIGGER THAN BECKHAM. THEY WERE THE WORKING CLASS FACTORY GIRLS WHO PLAYED IN FRONT OF VAST CROWDS THROUGHT BRITAIN AND BECAME CELEBRITIES ACROSS THE WORLD. THEY THREATENED THE ENTIRE MALE-DOMINATED BASTION OF 20TH CENTURY FOOTBALL. SO THE FA PLOTTED TO SHUT THEM DOWN.Boxing...
by Dan Blank
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
"It's as if Dan was sitting right next to you with a dry erase board saying, 'See what I mean?' This is another must have book for the soccer lover." Ray Leone, Head Coach, Harvard#2 on Football.com's list of the Best Soccer Books for Players and Coaches.A follow-up...
Lovejoy on Football
One Man's Passion for The Most Important Subject in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Tim Lovejoy loves football. Along with Helen Chamberlain he presented Soccer AM for more than a decade to become as much a part of a football fan's weekend as phone-ins, back-page EXCLUSIVES and the vidiprinter. But why does Tim love football? Is it actually the most important subject in the world?...
by Dave Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
'Out of Our League: Defunct and ex-Football League Teams' is the ultimate guide for football supporters and soccer historians as it contains information about every football team that has ever graced the Football League but no longer does so. It explains why the teams left the League and gives details...
Those Feet
A Sensual History of English Football
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This follow-up to Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer is “an enchanting love letter to English football” (The Daily Telegraph).
In this playful, witty, and highly original look at English soccer, David Winner, author of the acclaimed Brilliant Orange, journeys to the heart...
The Soccer Diaries
An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Although soccer had long been the world’s game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in foreign magazines. But as Agovino himself passionately pursued soccer, Americans got wise and turned...