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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,972 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 200 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,435 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 45,429 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,667 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,173 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,591 ratings — published 1995
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.74 — 153,359 ratings — published 2024
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,667 ratings — published 2000
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,190 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 83 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,832 ratings — published 1994
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.90 — 59,803 ratings — published 2020
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,544 ratings — published 2016
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,889 ratings — published 2019
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.36 — 5,799 ratings — published 2017
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,893 ratings — published 1999
Everything for You (The Bergman Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 60 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,319 ratings — published 2022
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,793 ratings — published 2012
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,127 ratings — published 2025
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,614 ratings — published 2013
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,384 ratings — published 2016
Among the Thugs (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,464 ratings — published 1990
Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,114 ratings — published 2015
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.98 — 34,029 ratings — published 2014
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.55 — 105,846 ratings — published 2023
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 52,279 ratings — published 2019
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 — 2,354 ratings — published 2009
Ajax, the Dutch, the War : Football in Europe During the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,224 ratings — published 2003
Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.86 — 801 ratings — published
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,447 ratings — published 2009
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,827 ratings — published 2006
The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,957 ratings — published 2021
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 76,715 ratings — published 2019
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,468 ratings — published 2017
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,617 ratings — published 2006
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,900 ratings — published 2002
Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (Sporting)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.00 — 263 ratings — published 2006
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,443 ratings — published 2007
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,130 ratings — published 2012
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,335 ratings — published 2006
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.59 — 33,977 ratings — published 1997
If Only You (The Bergman Brothers, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,175 ratings — published 2023
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,020 ratings — published 2015
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,852 ratings — published 2016
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,895 ratings — published 2017
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.45 — 10,893 ratings — published 2018
Cleat Cute (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.68 — 45,390 ratings — published 2023
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,695 ratings — published 2020
The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,003 ratings — published 2019
A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character . . . and Goals! (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,382 ratings — published 2002
“Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pregnancy. She and morning sickness were not seeing eye-to-eye.”
― Player's Ultimatum
― Player's Ultimatum
“The Stadium
Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands bereft of spectators.
At Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953 when England fell to the Hungarians. Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the glory days of Uruguayan soccer. Maracanã is still crying over Brazil’s 1950 World Cup defeat. At Bombonera in Buenos Aires, drums boom from half a century ago. From the depths of Azteca Stadium, you can hear the ceremonial chants of the ancient Mexican ball game. The concrete terraces of Camp Nou in Barcelona speak Catalan, and the stands of San Mamés in Bilbao talk in Basque. In Milan, the ghosts of Giuseppe Meazza scores goals that shake the stadium bearing his name. The final match of the 1974 World Cup, won by Germany, is played day after day and night after night at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. King Fahd Stadium in Saudi Arabia has marble and gold boxes and carpeted stands, but it has no memory or much of anything to say.”
― Soccer in Sun and Shadow
Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands bereft of spectators.
At Wembley, shouts from the 1966 World Cup, which England won, still resound, and if you listen very closely you can hear groans from 1953 when England fell to the Hungarians. Montevideo’s Centenario Stadium sighs with nostalgia for the glory days of Uruguayan soccer. Maracanã is still crying over Brazil’s 1950 World Cup defeat. At Bombonera in Buenos Aires, drums boom from half a century ago. From the depths of Azteca Stadium, you can hear the ceremonial chants of the ancient Mexican ball game. The concrete terraces of Camp Nou in Barcelona speak Catalan, and the stands of San Mamés in Bilbao talk in Basque. In Milan, the ghosts of Giuseppe Meazza scores goals that shake the stadium bearing his name. The final match of the 1974 World Cup, won by Germany, is played day after day and night after night at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. King Fahd Stadium in Saudi Arabia has marble and gold boxes and carpeted stands, but it has no memory or much of anything to say.”
― Soccer in Sun and Shadow
