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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,457 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 — 19,855 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,243 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,361 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,121 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,951 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 — 6,624 ratings — published 2018
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.75 — 133,374 ratings — published 2024
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,576 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 79 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,705 ratings — published 1994
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.91 — 57,937 ratings — published 2020
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,884 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 4.21 — 4,751 ratings — published 1999
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,695 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 — 5,555 ratings — published 2017
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,668 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 4.05 — 22,591 ratings — published 2022
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,026 ratings — published 2025
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,960 ratings — published 2016
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,882 ratings — published 2014
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 50,808 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 — 2,081 ratings — published 2015
Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 51 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,291 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 — 2,332 ratings — published 2009
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.55 — 100,897 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 — 1,198 ratings — published 2003
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,397 ratings — published 2009
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,769 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 — 780 ratings — published
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,549 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 — 2,782 ratings — published 2021
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,244 ratings — published 2017
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,868 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 — 1,433 ratings — published 2007
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,553 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 — 21,457 ratings — published 2023
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,072 ratings — published 2015
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,724 ratings — published 2016
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,869 ratings — published 2002
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,039 ratings — published 2006
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,849 ratings — published 2017
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,933 ratings — published 2018
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,419 ratings — published 2013
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,295 ratings — published 2020
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,080 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 — 1,035 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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“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on would have about as much chance of power as the chief executive of BP has in taking over from Oprah Winfrey.”
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