Soccer category: 2494 books
by Tom Dunmore
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Soccer is the world's most popular sport and one of the globe's best known cultural practices. The pinnacle of the sport worldwide is the FIFA World Cup, a competition held every four years, which crowns one nation as the world champion in front of huge global television audiences: over half of the...
by Noah Davis, Rick Leddy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
As soon as she turned, Carli Lloyd knew what to do. It was the same thing she'd done so many times during her soccer career, an action she practiced over and over again. It was something she had worked on just in case the right moment presented itself in a match. And this was the right moment. On...
by Timo Jankowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Soccer player are more than the sum of their parts: endurance, speed, shooting technique, passing technique, skills, and intelligence on the pitch. The soccer coach has to take all of these factors into one system that will create good players. The concept of Tactical Periodization has become the...
Soccer Men
Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In his national bestseller, Soccernomics, Simon Kuper pioneered a new way of looking at soccer, the world's most popular game, through his witty and meticulous use of data. In Soccer Men, Kuper explores the heart and soul of the sport by getting up close and personal with soccer's greatest players...
Soccer Against the Enemy
How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same...
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...
Maradona
The Autobiography of Soccer's Greatest and Most Controversial Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Argentina history book about the controversial Diego Maradona
A soccer biography for kids
Follows the author’s journey from childhood to 1994
“Sometimes I think that my whole life is on film, that my whole life is in print. But it’s not like that. There are things which are only in my heart—that...
Angels with Dirty Faces
How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer
Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stéfano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Argentina's rich,...
by Ray Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Making the Ball Roll is the ultimate complete guide to coaching youth soccer.
This focused and easy-to-understand book details training practices and tactics, and goes on to show you how to help young players achieve peak performance through tactical preparation, communication, psychology,...
by Gérard Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Soccer coaches across all levels of the game share a common and simple dilemma: how best to improve their players. One of the best ways to do this is through improved communication and how we individualize our messages to our players. It’s fundamentally important for coaches to provide quality communication...
Soccer in a Football World
The Story of America's Forgotten Game
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
David Beckham’s arrival in Los Angeles represents the latest attempt to jump-start soccer in the United States where, David Wangerin says, it “remains a minority sport.” With the rest of the globe so resolutely attached to the game, why is soccer still mostly dismissed by Americans?
Calling...
Money and Football: A Soccernomics Guide (INTL ed)
Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain Can, and Why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Modern soccer is big business. From the ill-received takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family to Paris Saint Germain's current shopping spree for the best footballers on the planet, soccer finance has become an increasingly important part of the game.
Barely a summer goes by now without...
Solo Soccer
A Self-Teaching Soccer Guide for Players, Parents, and Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
SOLO SOCCER A Self-Teaching Soccer Guide for Players, Parents, and Coaches This guide is designed to help young players practice soccer on their own. Footwork/Dribbling, Ball Control/Receiving, Passing, Shooting, and Soccer Fitness are all discussed and broken down into simple activities that players and parents can easily understand! Don't forget to HAVE FUN!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Soccer Basics
Essential Rules and Strategies for Coaches, Players, and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The ultimate resource for getting on the ball.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Soccer Basics explains anything and everything a parent or new coach needs to know to understand the game and make the most of a child's soccer experience. From the rules of the game to playing techniques, this is...