Football Soccer category: 2112 books
Messi
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
For soccer enthusiasts and sports fans in general, an in-depth look at the life of the beautiful game’s greatest star, Argentine footballer Lionel Messi.
Whether you call it soccer, football, fútbol, or the “beautiful game," it is the most popular sport in the world, and Argentine...
Pray
Notes on a Football Season
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating on a number of significant games in British soccer during the 2011–2012 season, Hornby chronicles the emotional, political, and societal highlights and...
Carlo Ancelotti
The Beautiful Game of an Ordinary Genius
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The entertaining, revealing, and controversial bestselling autobiography of one of the most respected figures in the world of soccer. Carlo Ancelotti is one of only six people to have won the Champions League—European soccer’s most coveted trophy—as both player and coach. After a successful...
A Season with Verona
A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and . . . Goals!
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Is Italy a united country, or a loose affiliation of warring states? Is Italian football (which we Americans know as “soccer”) a sport, or an ill-disguised protraction of ancient enmities? After twenty years in the bel paese, Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of his hometown soccer...
The Barcelona Inheritance
The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
From Cruyff's "Total Football" to the epic rivalry between Guardiola and Mourinho, a gripping chronicle of the rise and fall of Barcelona's dominance in world soccer.
Barcelona's style of play--pressing and possessing--is the single biggest influence on modern soccer. In The Barcelona...
Chelsea FC in the Swinging 60s
Football's First Rock 'n' Roll Club
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Kings Road was the place to be in the 1960s, and their residents Chelsea FC were the original fashionable football club. More than forty years after Chelsea conquered Real Madrid in a dramatic European final, Greg Tesser relives the days when he was Britain’s youngest football agent. He will tell...
Stan the Man
A Hard Life in Football
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This is the extraordinary life story of Stan Ternent, one of the most outrageous managers in professional soccer. Celebrated for achieving a series of promotions on shoestring budgets, he has coached some of soccer's biggest names, including Ian Wright, Vinnie Jones, Dennis Wise, and Gazza. Stan's...
by Sebastian Abbot
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“An exhilarating, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately unforgettable journey that lays bare the true human stakes of the world’s most popular game.”—Warren St. John, best-selling author of Outcasts United
Searching for soccer’s next superstars, an audacious program called Football...
Youth Soccer Training Slides
A Math and Science Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Soccer is the beautiful game, as widely recognized around the world. January 2014 statistics show that over 50 million youth play soccer worldwide. Early training of soccer means a lifetime of love of the sport. The enjoyment of soccer transcends mere involvement as a player, coach, fan, sponsor,...
by DeAngelo Wiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Whatever sport you coach, building a successful sports program can be an enormous, sometimes daunting, task filled with many responsibilities and demands. Questions and decisions wait around every corner, often pulling a coach away from long-term considerations. How can you build a program when daily...
Soccer Training
Games, Drills and Fitness Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Soccer Training: Games, Drills and Fitness Practices brings together games and routines recommended by some of the world's top coaches. A practical training handbook for soccer coaches, it contains over 60 practices and drills aimed at developing specific skills, from controlling and passing the ball...
by Jason Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
As one of the oldest league clubs in the Football League, Sheffield Wednesday can boast a rich and fascinating history, from their formation back in 1867 to present day. The Owls have now played over 4,600 games in league soccer and hundreds more in cup competitions. Known the world over, thanks in...
by Umberto Vitali
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
THE NEW YOUTH FOOTBALL because we need to have a modern concept of youth football to 360 °, that is in addition to the qualities: physical, technical, psychological of the young footballer, we must take account of: food, health, morality, sociality, lifestyle, legality, etc ...
That is this...
'If I started to cry, I wouldn't stop'
What I talk about when I talked about football and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
*If I started to cry, I wouldn't stop' * - a quote taken from former Australian football captain, Lucas Neill, is a snapshot in time - of the glorious, problematic, and cursed path of football in Australia (yes all those things), starting with Mark Bosnich in Sydney in 1996 and ending with Harry...