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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,272 ratings — published 2008
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 19,740 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 43,860 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,301 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,103 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,831 ratings — published 1995
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,551 ratings — published 2000
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,221 ratings — published 2024
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,376 ratings — published 2018
Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,661 ratings — published 1994
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.91 — 57,291 ratings — published 2020
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,469 ratings — published 2016
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,689 ratings — published 1999
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,632 ratings — published 2019
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,436 ratings — published 2017
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,637 ratings — published 2012
Everything for You (The Bergman Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,272 ratings — published 2022
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,676 ratings — published 2025
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,828 ratings — published 2014
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,526 ratings — published 2013
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,816 ratings — published 2016
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 50,307 ratings — published 2019
Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,069 ratings — published 2015
The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,325 ratings — published 2009
Among the Thugs (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,732 ratings — published 1990
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.56 — 98,762 ratings — published 2023
Ajax, the Dutch, the War : Football in Europe During the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,194 ratings — published 2003
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,382 ratings — published 2009
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,753 ratings — published 2006
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,530 ratings — published 2006
Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.86 — 771 ratings — published
The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,712 ratings — published 2021
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,992 ratings — published 2017
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 69,235 ratings — published 2019
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,431 ratings — published 2007
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,373 ratings — published 1997
Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (Sporting)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.98 — 260 ratings — published 2006
If Only You (The Bergman Brothers, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,185 ratings — published 2023
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,653 ratings — published 2016
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,858 ratings — published 2002
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,879 ratings — published 2015
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,949 ratings — published 2006
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,636 ratings — published 2017
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,120 ratings — published 2020
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,747 ratings — published 2018
Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,645 ratings — published 2016
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,066 ratings — published 2012
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,244 ratings — published 2013
This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 914 ratings — published 2012
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“Somehow you still get a kick out of comparing yourself to people who have completely different goals than you.”
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“For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy — and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck — though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone — a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game.”
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