Football Soccer category: 2112 books
by Oleg Lejnin
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This is a mental training guide, a meditation, for success in soccer. Mental training is an indispensable part of every team's and player's preparation in today's game. It plays a big role in confidence and performance on the field. Numerous studies have been conducted by sports psychologists...
Hotshot
The Story of a Little Red Devil: My Life as a Football Hooligan Gang Leader
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
In the mid-1980s, one young man from a tough Manchester estate exploded onto the soccer hooligan scene. Known to all as Hotshot, he had been introduced to drugs and violence at an early age, joining a teenage gang at just ten years old. By the age of fifteen he was attending drug-fuelled all-night...
Messi – 2013 Edition
The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
El Pibe de Oro. The Golden Boy. Diego Maradona’s unwaning shadow looms large over world football. In 2007 the brilliant Argentine chose Lionel Messi as his successor to the famous No. 10 shirt. But you can never be sure that potential will be fulfilled. Three years later, Messi – El Pulga, the...
White Angels
Beckham, the Real Madrid, and the New Football
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
A look at soccer superstar David Beckham, the Real Madrid team he joined in 2003, and at how this combination has forever changed the face of the world's most popular sport.
The Ugly Game
The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
“The book that reminds you exactly what’s wrong with FIFA” (Esquire UK): This meticulously reported account by two award-winning, investigative journalists at Britain’s The Sunday Times explains how the 2022 World Cup was secured for Qatar—a key element in the ongoing, international FIFA...
When the Dream Became Reality
The journey of a professional soccer player, and the push for meaning, purpose, and contentment
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
A young soccer player dreamed of playing professionally. Or, better said, he dreamed of doing something great. He wanted to be someone or get somewhere—for his life to mean something—and soccer became his path. When he heard his name called in the 1st Round of the MLS SuperDraft, he expected his...
Home and Away
One Writer's Inspiring Experience at the Homeless World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
“An even-handed and stunning portrayal” of the little-known street soccer tournament that brings together the homeless of the world (PopMatters).
In 2008, Dave Bidini accompanies Homeless Team Canada to the Homeless World Cup—an annual street soccer tournament with goals unlike any other:...
by Wayne Wheelwright
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Watched and played by hundreds of millions of people around the globe, the sport's popularity continues to grow. One of the things that keeps people talking about games are referee's decisions. Everybofy seems to think they could do a better job. This quiz...
Soul Crew
The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Hooligan Gang
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
The Cardiff Soul Crew are recognised by police intelligence officers as the most violent football hooligan gang currently active in Britain. Their 400-plus members have been involved in mass disorder at matches for more than twenty-five years. Yet they have largely escaped the notoriety of their English...
Please Don't Go
Big John's Journey Back to Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In July 2009, former Celtic and Wales soccer star John Hartson was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which had also spread to his lungs and brain. But before his treatment even began, John came to the brink of death after contracting pneumonia, ceasing to breathe and undergoing emergency brain surgery....
by Schreiner, Peter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Want to learn how to dribble and feint like Maradona or Ronaldinho and to juggle the ball like Jay-Jay Okochaor Edgar Davids? In this book, players learn how to become good ball handlers and master tricks that enable them to score more goals while playing attractive, offensive soccer.
Kick the Balls
A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
A "hilarious and utterly irreverent tale" (Irvine Welsh) of a year in the life of an abrasive pee-wee soccer coach
Growing up in Scotland, Alan Black learned that soccer was no mere game; it was a matter of life or death. In this harshly hilarious tale, Black, a Glasglow transplant...
Go For The Goal
A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
For the more than seven million girls—from knobby-kneed tykes to high school and college stars—who are tearing across the country chasing a soccer ball and dreams of glory, there is one name that eclipses all others, male or female: Mia Hamm. With her cheetahlike acceleration and lightning-bolt...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
In the last few years, there is no other position on the soccer field that has seen so many deep-rooted changes as seen in goalkeeping. Good reflexes on the goal line and superb control of the penalty zone by the goalkeeper used to be the main characteristics of this position. Nowadays, however, additional...