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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,862 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 — 20,298 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 45,203 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,621 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,169 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,508 ratings — published 1995
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,650 ratings — published 2000
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.74 — 150,221 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 4.30 — 7,088 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 82 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,805 ratings — published 1994
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,334 ratings — published 2016
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.90 — 59,484 ratings — published 2020
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,855 ratings — published 2019
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,761 ratings — published 2017
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,864 ratings — published 1999
Everything for You (The Bergman Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 60 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,208 ratings — published 2022
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,771 ratings — published 2012
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,007 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 — 3,600 ratings — published 2013
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,281 ratings — published 2016
Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,109 ratings — published 2015
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.98 — 34,018 ratings — published 2014
Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,251 ratings — published 1990
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 52,067 ratings — published 2019
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.55 — 105,086 ratings — published 2023
The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,355 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 3.89 — 1,219 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 — 800 ratings — published
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,443 ratings — published 2009
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,260 ratings — published 2017
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,814 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 — 2,930 ratings — published 2021
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 75,968 ratings — published 2019
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,592 ratings — published 2006
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,899 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 — 262 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
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,904 ratings — published 1997
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,857 ratings — published 2015
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,120 ratings — published 2012
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,835 ratings — published 2016
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,271 ratings — published 2006
If Only You (The Bergman Brothers, #6)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,054 ratings — published 2023
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,734 ratings — published 2017
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.45 — 10,729 ratings — published 2018
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,624 ratings — published 2020
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 — 2,369 ratings — published 2002
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,819 ratings — published 2013
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 — 1,040 ratings — published 2011
“Argentina football team hates to lose more than it loves to win.”
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“I read somewhere that spiders can spin silk strong enough to hold the weight of a thousand trucks. I tried to imagine those lines of silver, thinner than air, stronger than steel. Sometimes I think that a hundred webs, invisible gossamers, connect Gracie and me. They coat our bodies, tie our limbs together, link our hearts. They can stretch across cities, countries – even anger. Unbreakable. I felt them that first time I watched her play soccer.
She needed to win so badly. I watched a new Gracie crack out of her cocoon that day. Grey, moth-like, she seemed covered in a dust that let her take to the air. Fly. They’re beautiful things, moths, with their dark patterned wings hooking on wind to push them forward. You have to be careful with them, though. Brush them just lightly, and they can’t fly anymore.”
― The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
She needed to win so badly. I watched a new Gracie crack out of her cocoon that day. Grey, moth-like, she seemed covered in a dust that let her take to the air. Fly. They’re beautiful things, moths, with their dark patterned wings hooking on wind to push them forward. You have to be careful with them, though. Brush them just lightly, and they can’t fly anymore.”
― The Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain
