Soccer Memoir

Zur FUSSBALL-WM in BRASILIEN: Gibt es einen Fußball-Gott? Weiß man nicht so recht. Aber sicher gibt es Fußball- Legenden. Jene Spieler, die Fußballgeschichte geschrieben haben. Christian Bämann und Martin Maria Schwarz stellen sie vor und erzählen von ihren Wegen vom Kindertalent zum Fußballstar: von Beckham, dem Sohn eines Kücheninstallateurs, Maradona, dem Sohn eines Fabrikarbeiters.

Sir Bobby Charlton is widely acknowledged as the greatest player ever to wear an England shirt. He won a record number of caps and scored a record number of goals. Here, in the second volume of his bestselling autobiography, Sir Bobby talks in detail about his phenomenal career with England.

Percy Tau grew up with seven siblings and a single mom in the mining town of Witbank. For Percy and his family, life is tough, as their mother struggles to make ends meet. But there is one thing that brings the Tau boys together: soccer. At the Mmagobana Primary School, they quickly make a name for themselves on the soccer team. Despite the boys’ enthusiasm for the game, Percy’s mom is against him playing soccer. She wants him to get a ‘real job’ - after all, she doesn’t want to see her son struggle in life.

Relive the highs (and the lows!) from fifty years of English football as recalled by some of the game's all-time great players, managers and commentators.

Para Ignacio Martínez de Pisón (Zaragoza, 1960), el Zaragoza son recuerdos de Las Gaunas de Logroño y de goles de Felipe Ocampos en La Romareda. Es el desesperado braceo de Seaman en la final de la Recopa contra el Arsenal el 10 de mayo de 1995, las propiedades terapéuticas del gol de Nayim y recitar de carrerilla, con entonación de poesía escolar, viejas alineaciones del Zaragoza de su infancia.

Un audiobook per ogni appassionato di calcio. La serie "I grandi dello sport" ti fa rivivere le gesta e la vita dei più grandi campioni nella storia del loro sport: Marco Pantani, il re del ciclismo, Yasuhiro Yamashita, maestro judoka, e Robin Friday, calciatore ribelle dal talento innato. La vita e la carriera di Robin Friday sono un esempio perfetto per chi non crede che sia il talento a fare almeno il 90% del lavoro

At last, the most talked about footballer of his generation does his own talking. It's heartfelt, it's raw, it's one hell of a story. Every football fan has an opinion on Rio Ferdinand. He is one of the most gifted footballers the UK has ever produced, twice breaking the British transfer record, but he courts controversy in equal measure. Most famously, he was dropped by England for missing a drugs test, and his subsequent eight-month ban made front-page news.

A tribute to the late Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup winning side of 1966, one of the greatest footballers of his generation, and a man who personified Britain in the swinging sixties. This is his powerful and moving human-interest life story, as told by his wife Tina, including his battle against cancer.‘But Bobby had been in that dark place before Lance Armstrong was even born. In many ways it was even more devastating…in those days cancer was something you just didn't mention, a taboo word, a fearful prospect.