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  • The World Cup: The Complete History

    by Terry Crouch, James Corbett ...
    Now in its fourth edition, The World Cup: The Complete History, is the only book to give a truly encyclopedic guide to the greatest football show on earth. Fully revised and updated in time for the 2014 finals in Brazil, the book is renowned for its remarkable comprehensiveness. Featuring a separate chapter for every competition; every single result of every match; every single player in every ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Ball is Round

    A Global History of Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics.There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final.In this ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

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  • Soccer in Sun and Shadow

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Translated by Mark Fried ...
    One of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time—a history of soccer that "stands out like Pelé on a field of second-stringers" ( The New Yorker).The beautiful game deserves a beautiful book, and Eduardo Galeano—one of Latin America's most acclaimed authors—has written it. From Aztec champions sacrificed to appease the gods, to the goals that were literally scored into wooden posts in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is the World Cup?

    by Bonnie Bader, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Stephen Marchesi ...
    Series series What Was?
    GOOOAAAAAL! Get ready for a front-row seat at the world's most-watched sporting event--the World Cup.Every four years, thirty-two of the best men's soccer teams from across the globe compete for the title of FIFA World Cup winner. Over one billion people tuned in worldwide to watch the final game of the 2014 competition, making the World Cup the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • Soccer Against the Enemy

    How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power

    by Simon Kuper ...
    Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. It is a matter of life and death for millions around the world, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently. Kuper ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The World Cup, A Very Peculiar History

    by David Arscott ...
    Series Book 28 - A Very Peculiar History
    In 'The World Cup, A Very Peculiar History', author David Arscott tackles the big subjects at the heart of the beautiful game, including how the tournament first kicked off, the dirty tactics used throughout the years and the most memorable managers in the history of football. Filled to the brim with quirky quotes, fantastic facts and surprising statistics, this is the perfect accompaniment to any ... Read more

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  • The Matters of Life, Death, and More

    Writing on Soccer

    by Aleksandar Hemon ...
    As the world’s eyes turn to the World Cup every four years, Aleksandar Hemon's The Matters of Life, Death, and More reminds us of a sad fact: “an average life seldom contains more than twenty World Cups—our games are tragically numbered.”We need to pay attention, to absorb the joy, the skill, the agony, the triumph, the beauty—everything that soccer is. And soccer is, of course, everything.In ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Mammoth Book Of The World Cup

    by Nick Holt ...
    Series Book 279 - Mammoth Books
    An all-encompassing, chronological guide to football's World Cup, one of the world's few truly international events, in good time for the June 2018 kick-off in Russia. From its beginnings in 1930 to the modern all-singing, all-dancing self-styled 'greatest show on Earth', every tournament is covered with features on major stars and great games, as well as stories about some less celebrated names ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Beautiful Game

    The World's Greatest Players and How Soccer Changed Their Lives

    by Tom Watt ...
    Foreword by Arsene Wenger, Introduction by David BeckhamSoccer writer and bestselling author of My Side, Tom Watt, talked to the world's top soccer players about growing up and falling in love with the game: Argentina's Lionel Messi and Brazil's Gilberto Silva; England's David James and Scotland's Craig Gordon; Italy's Fabio Cannavaro, Spain's Iker Casillas, and France's Franck Ribéry; South ... Read more

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  • Thirty-One Nil

    On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey

    by James Montague ...
    WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSA brilliant book - Rory SmithThe story of the immense struggle to qualify for the World Cup, Thirty-One Nil roams from American Samoa to Zambia in a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football.In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The World Is a Ball

    The Joy, Madness, and Meaning of Soccer

    by John Doyle ...
    Globe and Mail columnist John Doyle explores the international phenomenon of soccerIn A Great Feast of Light, John Doyle viewed his childhood in Ireland through the television screen. Now, he turns his eye to the most popular sport on the planet: soccer. It's a journey that begins with the first game John saw, in 1960s-era Ireland, through soccer in the 21st century—the World Cups in '02 and '06, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Britannica Guide to Soccer

    by Adam Augustyn ...
    Series series The World of Sports
    Although it assumes different monikers in various parts of the world and has appeared in various incarnations over time, the game of soccer has retained a great deal of its original character. While it is ostensibly simple in terms of equipment and rules, soccer has inspired skill, strategy, and pure athleticism that have allowed the professional sport to evolve. The history of soccer and the ... Read more

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