Soccer

This pioneering soccer book chronicles the evolution of the sport and how it has affected the lives of players, coaches, and fans–perfect for those who adore the timeless game.

xGenius explores the interplay between analysis, tactics, and decision-making. It seeks to put the sport of football under the microscope with the aim of getting closer to the ultimate truth of what makes players, managers and teams successful. What, ultimately, wins football matches.

In a world saturated with books about how to coach soccer, Dan Blank finally gives players a book on how to think it.

The insider account of the data revolution that has swept through the modern football world written by one of its key architects, Ian Graham.

Revised and updated with new material from the paperback edition....

Mourinho is both a sumptuous celebration of The Special One's managerial career so far, and an enigmatic insight into his unique brand of football wisdom and philosophy....

A mazy dribble through the recent history of European soccer, showing how shifting styles and influence have shaped the game....

Written by Dan Blank, Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You’re a Girl is one of the most inspirational stories ever written for the female athlete....

Technique, speed, and tactical execution are crucial components of winning soccer, but it is mental toughness that marks out the very best players - the ability to play when pressure is highest, the opposition is strongest, and fear is greatest....

In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport - now poised to fully establish itself in the USA....

Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl asks: How do some of the game's smartest figures master the craft of soccer? Wahl reveals how elite players and coaches strategize on and off the field....

Ruud Gullit knows better than anyone else that to understand soccer you have to understand strategy....

After an astonishing career-first in Scotland, and then over 27 years with Manchester United Football Club - Sir Alex Ferguson delivers Leading, in which the greatest soccer coach of all time will analyze the pivotal leadership decisions of his 38 years as a manager....

Since Klopp's arrival in 2015, Liverpool FC has had unbelievable success, giving the city great cultural value which it has not seen since The Beatles.

Football's most prolific and controversial goalscorer has nothing left to prove on the pitch. There is only one Zlatan....

Five soccer training books in one. Includes the books: Practice Soccer at Home, Soccer Mastery, Basic Soccer Drills for Kids, Soccer Numbers, and Soccer Defensive Drills....

The story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Barcelona and Argentina's Lionel Messi....

I Am Zlatan reveals a rare and ferocious intelligence, willpower and God-given talent most recently exhibited when Zlatan scored all four goals for Sweden in a 4-2 victory against England....

This is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world....

For three extraordinary seasons at Bayern Munich, Marti Perarnau was given total access around the German super club - to its players, its backroom staff, its board members....

Martí Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14....

Fixed breaks new ground as Moses Swaibu becomes the first player ever to write openly about how he helped to fix games, revealing exactly what happens on the pitch when a match is being manipulated.

In the summer of 2014, Tim Howard became an overnight sensation after more than 10 years as one of America's leading professional soccer players....

Anson Dorrance has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of athletics. Under Dorrance’s leadership at the University of North Carolina (UNC), the Tar Heels women’s soccer teams have won 22 of the 37 NCAA Women’s Soccer Championships....

Jürgen Klopp's coaching career began in the German second tier at the unfashionable club of FSV Mainz 05, whom he steered to the Budesliga for the first time in 41 years. In 2008, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he achieved back-to-back league titles....

The Women’s Game: More Than Just a Game A Global Analysis of Women’s Football – Between Structure, Ambition, and Social Responsibility What we see is the game. What lies behind it is a system in transition and a movement with a future. Women’s football has gained visibility in recent years. Yet, true equality, sustainable structures, and professional conditions remain incomplete in many places. This book explores what it takes to turn the game into a professional environment: organization, economic foresight, social responsibility, and people who are ready to think differently. ...

Sport — jam-packed as it is with decisions, judgements and predictions, usually made under significant pressure — is the perfect environment for cognitive biases to flourish. If we are to better understand sport, we must better understand why, how and in what circumstances these biases and other thinking oddities operate. In so doing, we will learn why… the decisions of match officials ARE inherently biased pundits are so bad at making predictions sporting form can appear and disappear in an instant people behave differently in crowds managers are sacked at the drop of a hat we bet ...

Football is the world's most popular sport, and the shirts worn by teams and their supporters are its greatest means of cultural expression. Every year clubs launch new kits with increasingly extravagant marketing campaigns and convoluted explanations of how their designs reflect their history and local community. But football shirts are much more than just a symbol of which club we support.

What sets the very best footballers apart from the rest? It’s not about ability but about being able to perform at your peak level consistently. You train your ability regularly, but do you leave your form down to ‘luck’ and simply hope you have a good game? Thanks to developments in our understanding of how the brain works, you can now effectively train to improve your form by conditioning your thoughts and behaviour in all aspects of your life. This engages the parts of the brain that enable you to perform consistently on the football pitch.

Fixed breaks new ground as Moses Swaibu becomes the first player ever to write openly about how he helped to fix games, revealing exactly what happens on the pitch when a match is being manipulated. He also exposes how the criminal gangs operate, how young professional players are targeted and groomed and the threats of violence that are used to keep them in check. Offering a fascinating insight into the ugly side of the beautiful game, it's a sporting autobiography like none ever written before.