104 books
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Soccer Books
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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,424 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 191 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 19,838 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,197 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,351 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,116 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,934 ratings — published 1995
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,587 ratings — published 2018
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,575 ratings — published 2000
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.75 — 131,920 ratings — published 2024
Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,698 ratings — published 1994
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.91 — 57,837 ratings — published 2020
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,819 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 — 4,739 ratings — published 1999
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,685 ratings — published 2019
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,533 ratings — published 2017
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,666 ratings — published 2012
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,546 ratings — published 2013
Everything for You (The Bergman Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,530 ratings — published 2022
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,964 ratings — published 2025
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,937 ratings — published 2016
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,867 ratings — published 2014
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 50,726 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 — 2,080 ratings — published 2015
Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 50 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,219 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 3.96 — 2,332 ratings — published 2009
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.55 — 100,555 ratings — published 2023
Ajax, the Dutch, the War : Football in Europe During the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,197 ratings — published 2003
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,395 ratings — published 2009
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,766 ratings — published 2006
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 — 779 ratings — published
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,546 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 4.22 — 2,773 ratings — published 2021
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,201 ratings — published 2017
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,433 ratings — published 2007
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,441 ratings — published 2019
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,515 ratings — published 1997
Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (Sporting)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.99 — 259 ratings — published 2006
If Only You (The Bergman Brothers, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,411 ratings — published 2023
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,034 ratings — published 2015
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,715 ratings — published 2016
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,868 ratings — published 2002
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,026 ratings — published 2006
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,801 ratings — published 2017
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,892 ratings — published 2018
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,395 ratings — published 2013
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,260 ratings — published 2020
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,078 ratings — published 2012
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 — 1,034 ratings — published 2011
“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”
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“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
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