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The Numbers Game
Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet.
Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually...
Outcasts United
An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide.
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American...
How Soccer Explains the World
An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“An eccentric, fascinating exposé of a world most of us know nothing about.”
—The New York Times Book Review
"An insightful, entertaining, brainiac sports road trip."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Foer’s skills as a narrator are enviable. His characterizations…...
The Fix
Soccer and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.
From the Introduction
Understand how gambling fixers work...
Africa United
Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Africa United is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield, the former Africa Correspondent for The Independent, meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, discovering the role that soccer has...
This Love Is Not for Cowards
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border...
We Ate All the Pies
How Football Swallowed Britain Whole
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
In Who Ate All the Pies?, the gonzo sports journalist explores and celebrates the things we love about the whole culture of the game, tries to explain how we got to where we are now and speculates where we the game is headed. Amongst other things, he explores the history of the football shirt in style...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Soccer Players of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating...
by David Squires
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This is football comic-ery, but not as you know it. Welcome to the inimitable work of illustrator David Squires.
Football and comics. Once a hearty Saturday combination to match cartoons and cereal, in recent years they’ve drifted apart. Thankfully for us, Squires is here to change all that.
In...
by Lee Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
German Football is on a roll: winners of the 2014 World Cup, club sides leading the way in Europe, a production line of superb talent coming through the system. Yet, fifteen years ago – at Euro 2000 – it was all so different. Germany suffered one of their most humiliating tournament exits as dismal...
A Beautiful Game
The World's Greatest Players and How Soccer Changed Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Foreword by Arsene Wenger, Introduction by David Beckham
Soccer writer and bestselling author of My Side, Tom Watt, talked to the world's top soccer players about growing up and falling in love with the game: Argentina's Lionel Messi and Brazil's Gilberto Silva; England's David James and Scotland's...
Understand Soccer and Impress Your Friends!
A Quick and Easy Guide to the 2014 Soccer World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This is a quick and basic guide to understanding the game of soccer and the 2014 World Cup. It gives a good overview of the game, as well as the structure of the 2014 World Cup. And let's be honest, most people are impressed if you can explain what "offside" is.
by Paul Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
This eBook is written for female managers and players interested in winning. The ideas explained in this edition can be used at every level of soccer, even the professional level, and will also enable ordinary teams to hold their own against, or even defeat, better rated teams.I show how ladies who...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Soccer Coaches: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating Greatest Soccer...