341 books
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Soccer Books
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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,641 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 194 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,008 ratings — published 2009
Fever Pitch (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.78 — 44,699 ratings — published 1992
How Soccer Explains the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,463 ratings — published 2004
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,138 ratings — published 2006
Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,151 ratings — published 1995
The Striker (Gods of the Game, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.75 — 142,428 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 4.31 — 6,834 ratings — published 2018
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,622 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 80 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,753 ratings — published 1994
Only When It's Us (Bergman Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,742 ratings — published 2020
Challenge (Harris Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 20,562 ratings — published 2016
Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,764 ratings — published 2019
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,666 ratings — published 2017
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 — 4,808 ratings — published 1999
Everything for You (The Bergman Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,944 ratings — published 2022
First Flight, Final Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,613 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 — 3,573 ratings — published 2013
Fear and Loathing in La Liga (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,719 ratings — published 2012
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,122 ratings — published 2016
Blindsided (Harris Brothers World, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.06 — 51,484 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 — 2,098 ratings — published 2015
Scoring Wilder (ebook)
by (shelved 52 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.98 — 33,951 ratings — published 2014
Among the Thugs (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 50 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,748 ratings — published 1990
The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.55 — 103,118 ratings — published 2023
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 — 2,345 ratings — published 2009
Ajax, the Dutch, the War : Football in Europe During the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,211 ratings — published 2003
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.84 — 8,427 ratings — published 2009
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,786 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 — 788 ratings — published
Endurance (Harris Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,604 ratings — published 2017
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 — 2,841 ratings — published 2021
Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,568 ratings — published 2006
Rock Bottom Girl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.25 — 74,289 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 — 1,436 ratings — published 2007
Tangerine (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,772 ratings — published 1997
Surrender (Harris Brothers, #4)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,349 ratings — published 2015
Futebol : The Brazillian Way of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,881 ratings — published 2002
Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game (Sporting)
by (shelved 37 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.00 — 260 ratings — published 2006
If Only You (The Bergman Brothers, #6)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,807 ratings — published 2023
The Player (ebook)
by (shelved 36 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,779 ratings — published 2016
Keeper (Harris Brothers, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.17 — 13,158 ratings — published 2017
Dominate (Harris Brothers, #5)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.46 — 10,208 ratings — published 2018
Soccer iQ: Things That Smart Players Do (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,100 ratings — published 2012
The Damned Utd (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,164 ratings — published 2006
Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as soccer)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,622 ratings — published 2013
Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as soccer)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,495 ratings — published 2020
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 — 1,039 ratings — published 2011
“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
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“My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.”
― Nineteen Seventy-Four
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.”
― Nineteen Seventy-Four













