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Soccer Against the Enemy

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

By Simon Kuper


Soccer Against the Enemy is a highly-acclaimed look at the dark underbelly of the world's most popular sport.

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Winning at All Costs

A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer

By John Foot


"It is impossible to comprehend Italy without understanding soccer—and vice-versa." So writes John Foot in this often dark and epic history of soccer in Italy, winners of the 2006 World Cup, and a country where the sport is the national civic religion.

Foot's book got a mention on the New York Times Soccer Blog.

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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

By Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski


Why doesn't the United States dominate soccer internationally...and how can it? Which is the best soccer nation on Earth? Why are the people who run soccer clubs so dumb?
These are some of the questions that every soccer fanatic has asked. Soccernomics answers them. Written with an economist's brain and a sports writer's skill, it applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics, looking at data in new ways, revealing counterintuitive truths about the world's most loved game.

"A brainteaser of a book for any beach-bound soccer fan."
—Bloomberg News' 50 Favorite Business Books

Soccernomics was featured in a major article in The New York Times about England's prospects in the World Cup.

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Soccer Against the Enemy (updated)

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

By Simon Kuper


Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, voted the best book on soccer by Four Four Two magazine, and as one of the top 25 books on sport by the London Observer, an updated Soccer Against the Enemy has been re-issued, with a new preface on the rise of the global fan. In it, Simon Kuper travels to 22 countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time, he tries to discover what makes different countries play such a simple game differently.

"The best [book] from the last few years."
Nick Hornby, author of Fever Pitch and About A Boy



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