Soccer

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American townClarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world?s war zones?from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghani...

The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in the history of British soccer Over the past four years, Alex Fergusonhas been reflecting on and jotting down the highlights of his extraordinary career, and here he reveals his amazing story as it unfolded, from his very early days in the tough shipyard...

Here, awardwinning writer Ronald Reng pieces together the puzzle of his lost friend's life. On November 10, 2009, the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was 32 years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. He was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs, includ...

Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor league soccer teamand delivers a brilliant and utterly unforgettable story of life in an offthebeatentrack Italian village.When Joe McGinniss sets out for the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro one summer, he merely intends to spend a seas...

Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled, football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club or him. David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells ...

The mark of a great coach is a constant desire to learn and grow. A hunger to use whatever can make them better. The bestselling author of Teach Like a Champion and Reading Reconsidered brings his considerable knowledge about the science of classroom teaching to the sports coaching world to create championship caliber coaches on the court and fiel...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Fiction, Sports lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Lola Levine likes writing in her diario, sipping her mom's cafe con leche, eating her dad's matzo ball soup, and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. So what if she doesn't always fit in Lola is fierce on the field, but when a soccer game during recess gets too competitive, she accidentally hurts her classmate Juan Gomez. Now everyo...

Soccernomics' applies highpowered analytical tools to everyday football topics. It's about looking at data in new ways, revealing counterintuitive truths about football and explaining all manner of things about the game which newspapers just can't see....

Football lies at the heart of popular culture in both England and Italy. It is played, watched, written about and talked to death by millions virtually every day of the year. But how do the characteristics of England and Italy affect the game in these two footballing nations Do the national stereotypes of Italians as passionate, stylish lotharios ...

In a country struggling with acceptance, hope can come in many different forms. As a boy, Hector loved playing soccer in his small Johannesburg township. He dreamed of playing on a real pitch with the boys from another part of the city, but apartheid made that impossible. Then, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and apartheid began t...

Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the crosscurrents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wideranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a surprising tour through the world of soccer, shining a spotlight on the clash of civilizations, the int...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015A man punches the wall in a strategic show of anger. Another complains he has become a stranger to those he loves. A third relies on ?my three a day: coffee, Nurofen and a bottle of wine.? Yet another admits he is an oddity, who would prefer to be working in cricket. A fifth descr...

The Twentieth Anniversary EditionWINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's millioncopyselling, awardwinnning football classic'A spanking 70 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' IndependentFor many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more lik...

In Asia, Europe, and World Cups, journalist Hill risked death to interview murderous mobsters and manipulative middlemen who lavish gifts, women, and envelopes of cash "shopping and coffee money" on players, referees, and staff. As Oxford academic, he found fixed games statistics show more red cards (barely), early goals, and "nap"s. He suggests "m...

Providing a crash course in soccer and coaching fundamentals for volunteer coaches, this book offers an overview of soccer rules, positions, and strategies as well as drills to help kids improve their kicking, dribbling, headers, and playmaking. It also offers advice on typical coaching challenges....

"The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team has won four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, set record TV ratings, drawn massive crowds, earned huge revenues for FIFA and U.S. Soccer, and helped to redefine the place of women in sports. But despite their dominance, and their rosters of superstar players, they've endured striking inequality: low pa...

Ever get a little overwhelmed by trying to think of what to teach your team in practiceWish you had a book that was quick to read that doubled your confidence by pointing out the most important things to focus on with your teamWant to learn the #1 thing to build the bond between you and a player that takes less than 5 seconds.Ever have difficult ...

The memoir behind the documentary One Night in Turin, the inside story of a World Cup that changed our footballing nation forever It was the World Cup semifinals. On 4th July, 1990, in a stadium in Turin, Gazza cried, England lost and football changed forever.This is the inside story of Italia '90 we meet the players, the hooligans, the agents, ...

Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fallouts, the drink, and the crumbling of Brian Clough's years as manager of Nottingham Forest. This is a tender portrait of one of football's most colourful characters....

"Take a minute to slip into the mind of one of the world's greatest soccer players and imagine a stadium around you. Picture a performance under the lights and mentally play the perfect game." Technique, speed and tactical execution are crucial components of winning soccer, but it is mental toughness that marks out the very best players the abili...

Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states Is Italian football a sport, or an illdisguised protraction of ancient enmitiesTim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities. This is a highly personal account of on...

National Book Award Long ListNew York Times Bestseller Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can?t nobody stop you/can?t nobody cop you?In this followup to the Newberywinning novel THE CROSSOVER, soccer, family, love, and friendship, take center stage as twelvey...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Sports lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study traces the world history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning, where chaos reigned. Along the way, author Jonathan Wilson, an erudite and detailed writer who never loses a sense of the grand narrative sweep, takes a look at the l...

English writer Phil Ball has put the history of Spanish football into the context of the epomymous Morbo. Hard to pin down in translation (though the author manfully spends a chapter trying to explain the term in its fullest sense), "morbo" encapsulates the fierce rivalry across a club scene fragmented by history, language and politics. The bitter ...

Next stop for the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series The World Cup in Mexico City! Goal! Jack and Annie have tickets to one of the most exciting soccer games ever?the 1970 World Cup! They are sure the famous soccer player Pelé will tell them a ?secret of greatness.? The game is nonstop action and the stands are packed. But how wil...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easytouse numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.Track the facts with Jack and Annie!When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #24: Soccer on Sunday, they had lots of ...

More than anything else, Francodreams of going pro some day.After all, his soccer coaches say he's the best kind of playermore giving than greedy, preferring to rack up the assists instead of scoring goals. And that method works just fine until Franco has to change schools. On his new team, the Warlocks, Franco's passfirst approach to soccer jus...

The definitive book about soccer. With a new foreword for the American edition. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the ...

Tor! The Story of German Football does exactly "what it says on the tin". As the author explains, his aim was to write an entertaining history of the German game. He has certainly achieved his goal, or "tor" as they would say in Germany. HesseLichtenberger sets out to prove that football in Germany is not necessarily the efficient, predictable mac...

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire citi...

The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world. 'Calcio' tells the story of Italian football from its origins in the 1890's to the present...

GOOOAAAAAL! Get ready for a frontrow seat at the world's mostwatched sporting eventthe World Cup.Every four years, thirtytwo of the best men's soccer teams from across the globe compete for the title of FIFA World Cup winner. Over one billion people tuned in worldwide to watch the final game of the 2014 competition, making the World Cup the mo...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Sports lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

occer 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 twentytwo countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time he tried to discover what makes different coun...

Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians see themselves. The essence of their game is one in which prodigious individual skills outshine team tactics, where dribbles and delicate flicks are preferred over physical challenges or longdistance passes, where technique ha...

A warmhearted story about a young girl who finds a way to bring together the two things that make her most happy soccer and her family.Nothing makes Sierra happy like soccer. Her shoes have flames as she spins the ball down the spreadout sea of grass. But nothing makes her sad like soccer, too, because the restaurant where her auntie works is bus...

In 2007, David Beckham, the golden boy of soccer, shocked the international sports world when he signed a fiveyear contract with an American team, the Los Angeles Galaxy. Under the direction of his manager, Simon Fuller, the mastermind behind American Idol and the Spice Girls, Beckham was ready for a monumental challenge and a risky adventure?read...

A New York Times Bestseller ?If you are a real soccer player?then this is the book for you to read . . . Inspiring and uplifting. ??GoalNation In 2015, the U.S. Women?s National Soccer Team won its first FIFA championship in sixteen years, culminating in an epic final game that electrified soccer fans around the world. It featured a gutsy, brilli...

What does the world's greatest soccer player love about the game The same things that you and I do! Speed, teamwork, dribbling, passing, taking your best shotand making a GOOAAAL!Join Pelé, world champion soccer star, as he celebrates the kick and thrill of his favorite sport. Artist Frank Morrison sets up the play with two dynamic visual ...