Association football (Soccer) Books

Canadian Soccer's 2024 Men's Football Annual and Who's Who Guide to Footballers. New April 2024 edition featuring team-by-team fixtures as well as 2023 results and player statistics for all 11 Canadian Major League Soccer and Canadian Premier League...

Canadian Soccer History: Men's Amateur Football Champions. The year-by-year record of Canada Soccer's National Championships men's amateur competition. From the Connaught Cup in 1913 to the Challenge Trophy in 2023. More than 110 years of Canadian...

How Excellence HappensFrom 2000 to 2010, the Messiah College soccer program-the men's team and women's team combined-posted the best record in NCAA soccer: 472 wins, 31 losses, and 20 ties. Few programs were even close. Seventeen Final Fours between...

THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER - Saturday, the 15th of April 1989 - when 96 innocent men, women and children lost their lives, in Britain's worst ever sporting disaster. WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART: A HILLSBOROUGH SURVIVOR'S STORY, THE DENIAL OF JUSTICE & A...

La guida vi accompagnerà indicandovi come muoversi comodamente nelle varie zone di Lisbona con metrò, treni e bus portandovi in tutti gli stadi in modo da non perdersi davvero nulla, calcisticamente parlando.

In 1994, the year of the World Soccer Cup here in the United States, I had the opportunity to meet who for many (not for others) is the greatest professional soccer player the world has ever seen: Edson Arantes do Nascimento. In this event organized by...

Soccer is the fastest growing sport in America: almost nine million children between the ages of six and eleven play, making it second in that age group behind basketball. But because of its only recent explosion in popularity, many coaches are about...

Jungian psychology of football is a new and cutting edge approach being applied by Champions league teams and used in youth football training. Implications for the wider role of football organisations in society as models for the diagnosis and management...

The English Premier League (EPL) is one of the world's most valuable and high-profile sports leagues, with millions of fans around the globe. The 2016/17 season marked the 25th anniversary of the EPL, providing a unique opportunity to reflect on how it...

Football is undoubtedly the sport with the largest following in the world, attracting billions of fans across the globe. These fans play an integral part in determining the identity of the football club they support. Many studies have focused on the...

Are you ready to step into the world of football betting like never before? Betting Pro 2.0: How To Win Every Football Bet, All The Time is your definitive guide to transforming from an average bettor into an expert Betting Pro 2.0. Unveil the strategies...

Neue Gedichte über Fußball und andere Dinge, den Sinn des Lebens betreffend.Ende November 2017 ging es weder mir noch dem FC St. Pauli besonders gut.Nach der besten Rückrunde der Vereinsgeschichte in der Vorsaison und einem Saisonstart voller Hoffnung...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 13,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Facharbeit erörtert die Fragestellung, ob die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2014 wirtschaftlich fördernd für das Schwellenland...

What does it take to build a winning club culture? It always begins with being a good all-around person and keeping the well-being of the athlete in mind. All decisions regarding club policy and procedure are based on what is most beneficial to the...

Jürgen Said to Me is a human-interest story centred around Liverpool FC's most successful and charismatic leader of recent times. It charts Jürgen Klopp's impact on Liverpool through the voice of the author and those at the heart of his revival.In...

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport. Known as football in most countries outside the US (or Association Football) it has over 250 million players in over 200 countries. The game is internationally governed by FIFA who organize the men’s...

Inside the World of a Football Agent provides a series of practical cases, experienced first-hand by the author, that will help the readers to immerse themselves in the reality of a football agent that interacts with presidents, CEO, sports directors,...

This book documents the early impressions and initial responses of various stakeholders of the soccer world to the challenges of COVID-19 in 2020.

Coach Education in Football is the first book to explicitly explore social, cultural, and historical aspects, by providing critical insight into football coach education programmes from across the globe.

Hay una línea tan delgada como difusa que separa el éxito del fracaso. La victoria de la derrota. Esos dos impostores, como los definió Kipling, son camaleónicos. Y a base de camuflar sus virtudes y defectos hemos encumbrado a unos y repudiado a otros,...

Der Fussball ist längst keine rein europäische und südamerikanische Angelegenheit mehr. Aktuell drängen die Chinesen sehr aggressiv mit ihren Millionen in den Markt und weiten ihre Macht mehr und mehr aus.In Chinas Weg zur Fussballmacht wird aufgezeigt,...

This book was written to change the way players think about and play the game of soccer. I struggled for years with sub-average performances as a defender, defensive center midfielder, and outside midfielder. I was often placed in these positions because...

Football is unquestionably the world's most popular and influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA, football's governing body, than to the United Nations. The...

Association football is now the global sport, consumed in various ways by millions of people across the world. Throughout its history, football has been a catalyst as much for social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration as it can be for division,...

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this authoritative new history examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s.

This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the...

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its promotion as a solution to social problems.Midnight Football is a sports-based intervention targeting social inclusion and crime...

This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and...

FC Barcelona: A Tactical Analysis - DefendingA Team from Another Planet!A Tactical Blue-Print of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona TeamThis book is an exclusive and groundbreaking study of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team.This information and analysis of one of...

Player Development: The Holistic Method provides the first holistic, evidence-based performance development method in sport. Focusing on the world's largest sport, soccer, this book weaves together the interconnected layers driving player performance...

Andrew-Henry Bowie is a passionate Heart of Midlothian Football Club supporter. He doggedly survived a tough childhood and found solace - sort of - in his overwhelming love of football. The author engages the reader with an energetic and animated account...

This blog diary creates a mosaic of David Beckham's first year in the United States. It cleverly pulls together different aspects of the "Beckham to the LA Galaxy" story to give the reader a more rounded perspective of the soccer icon's impact on America...

Rob Ryder made that pledge to his wife, and he was determined to stick to it. As technical consultant on blockbuster sports films, he had seen up close how the film business works and what kind of chaos can, and usually does, ensue. And now he was ready...

This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.Africa's Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football,...

This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939. It shows how the British government saw sport as an instrument of policy and cultural propaganda.

The identification and development of talented young players has become a central concern of football clubs at all levels of the professional game, as well as for national and international governing bodies. This is the first book to offer a...

Youth sports aren't just about fun and games anymore. What should be a pleasurable experience is often marred by poor sportsmanship, trash talking, win-at-all-cost attitudes, and, in the worst cases, violence. But World Cup soccer champion and Olympic...

Newcastle United enter the Football League as they accept an invitation to join the fledgling Second Division. So, for the first time League football arrived at St James's Park, welcome to Season ONE!Newcastle United ~ Season One is the game‑by‑game...

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in...

Modern football is an industry and capitalism is its engine. However, this book argues for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary football culture and the (self-)identity of football fans.Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted with...

This book examines the interplay between football, politics, violence, passion and morality in Argentina. Drawing on original ethnographic research, it considers the role of fans, club officials, politicians and others in the spread and perpetuation of...

Football fans and football culture represent a unique prism through which to view contemporary society and politics. Based on in-depth empirical research into football in Poland, this book examines how fans develop political identities and how those...

For a long time, various different lobbying sectors have claimed that the use of video technology is an effective aid in decision-making. Now the IFAB has taken a historic step in the approval of experiments on the use of video to provide support to...