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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,349 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 190 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 19,781 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,051 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,324 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,112 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,897 ratings — published 1995
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,569 ratings — published 2000
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.31 — 6,489 ratings — published 2018
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.76 — 128,279 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 78 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,682 ratings — published 1994
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.91 — 57,570 ratings — published 2020
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,621 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 — 4,717 ratings — published 1999
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,659 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 — 5,489 ratings — published 2017
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,651 ratings — published 2012
Everything for You (The Bergman Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,386 ratings — published 2022
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,833 ratings — published 2025
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 54 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,883 ratings — published 2016
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,849 ratings — published 2014
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,537 ratings — published 2013
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 50,539 ratings — published 2019
Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,072 ratings — published 2015
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
Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 49 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,023 ratings — published 1990
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.56 — 99,749 ratings — published 2023
Ajax, the Dutch, the War : Football in Europe During the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,193 ratings — published 2003
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,390 ratings — published 2009
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,761 ratings — published 2006
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,540 ratings — published 2006
Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.86 — 776 ratings — published
The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,746 ratings — published 2021
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,058 ratings — published 2017
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 70,326 ratings — published 2019
Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,432 ratings — published 2007
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,455 ratings — published 1997
Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (Sporting)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.98 — 259 ratings — published 2006
If Only You (The Bergman Brothers, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.02 — 21,274 ratings — published 2023
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,938 ratings — published 2015
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,688 ratings — published 2016
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,860 ratings — published 2002
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,695 ratings — published 2017
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,996 ratings — published 2006
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.47 — 9,801 ratings — published 2018
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,189 ratings — published 2020
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,073 ratings — published 2012
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,321 ratings — published 2013
This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 916 ratings — published 2012
Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,659 ratings — published 2016
“[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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“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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