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Football and European Identity
Historical Narratives Through the Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Shifting European identities, cultural loyalties and divisions are often expressed more directly through attitudes to 'the people's game' game than in any other arena.
This book examines European football journalism from throughout the last century to present a unique cross-cultural analysis...
Leopold Method Quarterly Edition Issue 1
Intelligent, Insightful Football Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Leopold Method’s Quarterly Edition is a cross between the world renowned UK football publication the Blizzard and Australian current affairs journal Quarterly Essay. Issue 1 covers regional football, coaching and development, Aboriginal football and a historical narrative on a migrant community football...
The Global Football Industry
Marketing Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
In recent years, football’s status as "the world’s sport" has shown little sign of waning. From increasing participation at grassroots levels and to the highly lucrative media rights deals secured by the top elite clubs, the game appears to be thriving as it continues to excite and enthral...
Global and Local Football
Politics and Europeanization on the Fringes of the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game?
Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic...
by Seamus Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Considering the celebrity-like status of the professional football manager, surprisingly little is known about their role. This book provides an unprecedented insight into the chronically insecure and vulnerable world of the contemporary professional football manager. Drawing on original research,...
by Ted Buxton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
As a professional football coach and football scout, Edward 'Ted' Buxton is well-known in the world ofprofessional football. He has travelled the world, scouting, assessing and negotiating for players working in theUK, USA and China. But had it not been for football, Ted's prospects would have been no...
Football Fiction: England v Brazil
The Fantasy Football Adventure where YOU are the Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
An interactive fantasy football adventure game in which the reader acts as the star player. Based upon a role-playing concept, the reader is challenged to appear as a substitute midway in an international football match alongside a team consisting of fictional players. They must then seek to score the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe. These fans play an integral part in determining the identity of the football club they support. Many studies have focused on the intense rivalry between clubs, their fans and the...
Bloody Confused!
A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Chuck Culpepper was a veteran sports journalist edging toward burnout . . . then he went to London and discovered the high-octane, fanatical (and bloody confusing!) world of English soccer.
After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound...
Fan Mail
Twenty Years of Writing About Soccer (an eBook original from Riverhead Books)
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A new collection of soccer writing by the bestselling author of Fever Pitch.
After the phenomenal success of Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tried to avoid writing about soccer, for fear that he'd be writing about it forever. But occasionally over the years he’s found it impossible to turn down...
I Am Zlatan
My Story On and Off the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Daring, flashy, innovative, volatile—no matter what they call him, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of soccer’s brightest stars. A top-scoring striker and captain of the Swedish national team, he has dominated the world’s most storied teams, including Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan,...
by Noah Davis, Yonatan Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Goal Scorer. Finisher. Poacher. The hardest thing to do in the game of soccer is to put the ball in the back of the net, and the men who do so regularly are prized beyond all others. The players in this book are the best in the world today at what they do. Get the essentials about Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Robin Van Persie, and many more. They are The Strikers.
by Adrian Webster
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
CIRCLE OF LIFE is a compilation of Adrian Webster’s two books Eternal Blue Forever Green and the 40th Anniversary Soccer Bowl 77 Seattle Sounders Vs New York Cosmos. Adrian also covers his recent visit to Seattle where he received one of the Sounder’s top honors, the Golden Scarf.
In 2017,...
Ally Loves Soccer
Ally Loves Sports, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Eight-year-old Ally Mayberry waits all year for the soccer season. When her father decides he doesn’t have time to coach the team, Ally finds herself trying to impress a new coach. And she has to do it while playing a new position. Can Ally rise to the challenge? Find out in the first book of the “Ally Loves” series.