Football category: 4223 books
Deadlines and Darts with Dele: My World Cup Diary
England's Rebirth in Russia and other Unexpected Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
How did you spend the long, hot, World Cup summer of 2018? For Jonathan Northcroft, chief football writer of The Sunday Times, it was 35 unforgettable days spent criss-crossing Russia, covering the biggest sporting event on the planet. He reported on a new England team: young, daring and successful...
by Neil Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Duncan Ferguson. David Moyes. Paul McCartney. A father and a son. A passion for Everton. A passion for The Beatles. Blues & Beatles is the story of football and music across the generations. The story of how a young boy inherited those fascinations from his father - and would one day pass them...
by Xavier Tamarit
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Originally developed by Vitór Frade, at the University of Porto, Tactical Periodization is a methodology - popularized by coaches such as José Mourinho and Andre Villas Boas - that trains soccer players through a logical process that focuses on four moments of the game.
These four moments...
The Changing Face of the Football Business
Supporters Direct
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This examination of changes taking place in the world of football focuses on its growing commercialization. It covers such topics as fans becoming shareholders, with a say in the running of the clubs, and the setting-up of a government-sponsored scheme to support shareholder trusts.
When the Game Stands Tall Movie Devotional
52 Weekly Devotions for the Heart of a Champion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This is a companion devotional book to the feature film When the Game Stands Tall starring Jim Caviezel as Coach Bob Ladouceur, Laura Dern as his wife, and Michael Chiklis as assistant coach Terry Eidson. An adaptation of the bestselling book of the same name, the film chronicles the rise of the football...
Winning Choices
A Life-Changing Game Plan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Greg Papp has found a way to take two powerful American metaphors – football and pizza – and effectively grab the attention of a sports-saturated generation that often lacks the life skills and spiritual depth required to make sound choices. Winning Choices speaks to the uncertainty that many...
by Brian Glanville
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
'The best book on football ever written.' Franz Beckenbauer, winner of the World Cup as both player and manager.
In Football Memories, Brian Glanville himself writes, 'The central character, Garry, was a Scottish inside-forward based on Danny Blanchflower. This, largely because the footballer...
by Cormac Moore
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
In a new book entitled The Irish Soccer Split, Cormac Moore provides the most comprehensives analysis on the reasons why we have division in soccer in Ireland today unlike in sports such as rugby and cricket. Soccer in Ireland was governed for the whole island from 1880 until 1921 under the auspices...
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...
The English Premier League
A Socio-Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
The English Premier League (EPL) is one of the world’s most valuable and high-profile sports leagues, with millions of fans around the globe. The 2016/17 season marked the 25th anniversary of the EPL, providing a unique opportunity to reflect on how it has contributed, both positively and negatively,...
Touchdown
The Power and Precision of Football's Perfect Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Touchdown: The Power and Precision of Football's Perfect Play takes readers beyond the record books and explores all aspects of bringing the ball into the end zone. From football's very...
Facing the Green Bay Packers
Players Recall the Glory Years of the Team from Titletown, USA
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Over the course of nearly one hundred years, just a handful of NFL teams have enjoyed success across multiple decades. There’s absolutely no doubt which franchise the fans in Wisconsin would put at the top of the list.
Most Packers fans are familiar with the greatest players, games, and moments...
Soccer vs. the State
Tackling Football and Radical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by money makers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class England to political...
by John White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The England team has a long and storied history, but this title is neither a work of reference, nor a compendium of lists, nor a collection of biographies, nor a compilation of trivia. In fact, it is a gloriously quirky mixture of all these things and much more besides. The reader will learn hundreds...