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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 194 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 19,970 ratings — published 2009
Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,610 ratings — published 2008
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,622 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,446 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,134 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,086 ratings — published 1995
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.75 — 141,144 ratings — published 2024
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,806 ratings — published 2018
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,613 ratings — published 2000
Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,738 ratings — published 1994
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,614 ratings — published 2020
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 20,355 ratings — published 2016
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,753 ratings — published 2019
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 — 4,796 ratings — published 1999
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,651 ratings — published 2017
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,565 ratings — published 2013
Everything for You (The Bergman Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 57 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,876 ratings — published 2022
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,500 ratings — published 2025
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,712 ratings — published 2012
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,097 ratings — published 2016
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 51,334 ratings — published 2019
Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,094 ratings — published 2015
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.98 — 33,941 ratings — published 2014
Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 50 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,668 ratings — published 1990
The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,340 ratings — published 2009
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.55 — 102,741 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 — 1,210 ratings — published 2003
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,783 ratings — published 2006
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,424 ratings — published 2009
Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.86 — 785 ratings — published
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,480 ratings — published 2017
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,566 ratings — published 2006
The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,828 ratings — published 2021
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 73,935 ratings — published 2019
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,435 ratings — published 2007
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,739 ratings — published 1997
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,270 ratings — published 2015
Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (Sporting)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.99 — 259 ratings — published 2006
If Only You (The Bergman Brothers, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,753 ratings — published 2023
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,770 ratings — published 2016
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,879 ratings — published 2002
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 13,066 ratings — published 2017
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.46 — 10,135 ratings — published 2018
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,098 ratings — published 2012
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,143 ratings — published 2006
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,586 ratings — published 2013
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,458 ratings — published 2020
This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 918 ratings — published 2012
Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,038 ratings — published 2011
“When I was in London in 2008, I spent a couple hours hanging out at a pub with a couple of blokes who were drinking away the afternoon in preparation for going to that evening's Arsenal game/riot. Take away their Cockney accents, and these working-class guys might as well have been a couple of Bubbas gearing up for the Alabama-Auburn game. They were, in a phrase, British rednecks. And this is who soccer fans are, everywhere in the world except among the college-educated American elite. In Rio or Rome, the soccer fan is a Regular José or a Regular Giuseppe. [...] By contrast, if an American is that kind of Regular Joe, he doesn't watch soccer. He watches the NFL or bass fishing tournaments or Ultimate Fighting. In an American context, avid soccer fandom is almost exclusively located among two groups of people (a) foreigners—God bless 'em—and (b) pretentious yuppie snobs. Which is to say, conservatives don't hate soccer because we hate brown people. We hate soccer because we hate liberals.”
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“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”
― Pele: The Autobiography
― Pele: The Autobiography
