Category: Soccer

The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstars

By: Abbot, Sebastian

Price: $6.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : March 2018

Seller ID: 457652

ISBN-13: 9780393292206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Over the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for soccer's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi's career at Barcelona and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the program has chosen a handful of boys each year to train to become professionals--a process over a thousand times more selective than getting into Harvard.In The Away Game, reporter Sebastian Abbot follows a small group of the boys as they are discovered on dirt fields across Africa, join the glittering aca...
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1966 Uncovered

By: Beazley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley : January 1656

Seller ID: 757058

ISBN-13: 9781845332358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Football Dynamo

By: Bennetts, Marc

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Virgin Books : March 2009

Seller ID: 458867

ISBN-13: 9780753515716

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bennetts embarks on a quest to find the football managers, oligarchs, players, pundits & fans who define the Russian Premier league, the fastest-growing & most extreme football league in the world. Uncovering shocking revelations about racism & hooliganism, he decodes the chaos of modern Russia as reflected in its football.
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State of Play: Under the Skin of the Modern Game

By: Calvin, Michael

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Arrow : June 2019

Seller ID: 688726

ISBN-13: 9781784756123

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

'For those of you missing your football fix, anything by Michael Calvin is worth a read - the hugely respected sports journalist writes eloquently about the modern game in page turner State of Play.'DAILY MIRROR_______________________________________________________ LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men, Living on the Volcano and No Hunger in Paradise returns with his magnum opus on the state of modern footballFirst he revealed the extraordinary lives of football scouts in The Nowhere Men.Next he unearthed the pressures on f...
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How Soccer Explains the World

By: Foer, Franklin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarpPeren : July 2005

Seller ID: 746107

ISBN-13: 9780060731427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging 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 international economy, and just about everything in between. How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times.
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How Soccer Explains the World

By: Foer, Franklin

Price: $5.00

Publisher: HarpPeren : July 2005

Seller ID: 761489

ISBN-13: 9780060731427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging 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 international economy, and just about everything in between. How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times.
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The World Cup: Heroes, Hoodlums, High-Kicks and Head-Butts

By: Hansford, Paul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Seller ID: 729558

ISBN-13: 9781742707433

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

I Am Zlatan: My Story On and Off the Field

By: Ibrahimovic, Zlatan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : July 2017

Seller ID: 675613

ISBN-13: 9780812986921

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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, and Paris Saint-Germain. But his life wasn't always so charmed. Born to Balkan immigrants who divorced when he was a toddler, Zlatan learned self-reliance from his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. While his father, a Bosnian Muslim, drank to forget the war back home, his mother's household was engulfed i...
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Soccer Without Borders: Jürgen Klinsmann, Coaching the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team and the Quest for the World Cup

By: Kirschbaum, Erik

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Picador : May 2016

Seller ID: 696590

ISBN-13: 9781250098313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A GAME-CHANGING AND FASCINATING BOOK ON HOW TO USE WISDOM FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO CREATE A WORLD-CLASS SOCCER TEAM, ABOUT ONE OF THE SPORT'S MOST ICONIC AND EFFECTIVE COACHES Jurgen Klinsmann, head coach of the U.S. men's national soccer team, has become a household name after the United States' unprecedentedly strong run at the 2014 World Cup. Klinsmann's reputation is that of a maverick, of an unconventional leader who isn't afraid to challenge traditional notions of coaching, and who will breathe new life into foundering programs through sometimes unpopular -but resoundingly successful -n...
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Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

By: Knausgaard, Karl Ove

Price: $7.50

Publisher: : January 2016

Seller ID: 497806

ISBN-13: 9780374279837

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected lettersKarl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee, and Argentina.Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays soccer on the beach and watches matches with others. Ekelund loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful soccer. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil.Home and Away is an unusual soccer book, in which the two authors use soccer a...
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Soccer Men

By: Kuper, Simon

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : September 2016

Seller ID: 812871

ISBN-13: 9781568586878

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Simon Kuper's New York Times bestseller Soccernomics pioneered a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous empirical analysis and incisive--and witty-- commentary. Kuper now leaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul of the world's most popular sport in the new, extraordinarily revealing Soccer Men.Soccer Men goes behind the scenes with soccer's greatest players and coaches. Inquiring into the genius and hubris of the modern game, Kuper details the lives of giants such as Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Jorge Valdano, Lionel Messi, Kaka, and Didier Drogba, describing ...
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Raised a Warrior: A Memoir of Soccer, Grit, and Leveling the Playing Field

By: Petruccelli, Susie

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Apollo Publishers : July 2021

Seller ID: 548221

ISBN-13: 9781948062824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A star athlete shares her trailblazing account of triumph in the face of sexism, self-doubt, and injury, gives a remarkable global tour of the women's soccer world, and presents a stirring call-to-action to secure equal pay and conditions.When Susie Petruccelli won a place on Harvard University's soccer team, she felt on top of the world--talented, strong, and worthy. Unfortunately, after sustaining injuries and developing health problems, she felt her worth slip away. In this remarkable memoir, Petruccelli reveals how she battled her way back onto the field and continued to fight even after s...
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One Life

By: Rapinoe, Megan,Brockes, Emma

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Press : November 2020

Seller ID: 755273

ISBN-13: 9781984881168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An instant New York Times bestseller "Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world."--USA Today Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, reveals for the first time her life both on and off the field. Guided by her personal journey into social justice, brimming with humor, humanity, and joy, she urges all of us to ask ourselves, What will you do with your one life? Only four years old when she kicked her first ...
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Outcasts United

By: St. John, Warren

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : March 2016

Seller ID: 312883

ISBN-13: 9780385522045

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 home for scores of families in flight from the world's war zones--from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston's streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jord...
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Forward: A Memoir

By: Wambach, Abby

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dey Street Books : September 2016

Seller ID: 751099

ISBN-13: 9780062466983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucid and wrenching...Forward puts Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor. --NPRForward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves. --Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, New York Times Bestselling author of Lean In "This is the best memoir I've read by an athlete since Andre Agassi's Open." --Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and TakeAbby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. At age seven she was put on the boy...
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A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer

By: Wrack, Suzanne

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Triumph Books : August 2022

Seller ID: 809224

ISBN-13: 9781629379333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Soccer