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« Le football n'est pas une question de vie ou de mort, c'est quelque chose de bien plus important que cela. » Bill Shankly.De tous les supporters qui peuplent les tribunes belges, certains font encore beaucoup parler d'eux malgré les mesures répressives que les zones de police appliquent aux abords des terrains. Eux, ce sont les hooligans. Plus discrets et mieux préparés qu'à leur apogée, dans les années 1980 et 1990, ils se sont adaptés...
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What sensible person would ever shed so many tears, become so angry, and care so deeply about a game in which 22 players kick a ball around for 90 minutes? And yet, the world's most popular game continues to seduce millions of people all over the world. But football fans are constantly accused of caring too much about something that is "just a game". Unfortunately, these accusations are probably justified. They shouldn't care so much. They shouldn't...
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In this playful, witty, and highly original look at English soccer, David Winner, author of the acclaimed Brilliant Orange, journeys to the heart of an essential English pastime and sheds new light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful.
With the same insightful eye he brought to his bestselling study of Dutch soccer, Winner shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England's many World Cup failures....
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Quand un sport devient la passion d'un pays tout entier
C'est une évidence: la prochaine Coupe du monde de football au Brésil va être l'occasion pour l'équipe nationale de se mettre une nouvelle fois en valeur. La Seleçao est largement favorite. Comme toujours. Comme si le ballon rond était sa propriété privée, l'outil de sa domination éternelle, parfois partagé du bout du crampon avec les autres nations européennes. Dans le monde du...
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Soccer has turned into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Professionalism and commercialization dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by moneymakers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class England to political protests by players and fans, and a current radical soccer underground, the notion of football as the "people's game" has been kept alive by numerous individuals,...
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The story of a football club born in a poverty-stricken corner of Glasgow-and its powerful rise to champion status and worldwide renown.
Celtic is a club like no other. Its story is a unique one, of a football club founded to raise money to help alleviate poverty within the predominantly Irish immigrant community of Glasgow's East End. Yet, from its inception, Celtic has been a club open to all. From those humble and charitable origins, Celtic have...
7) Red on Red
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The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football
Liverpool and Manchester. Two gloriously independent-minded, eclectic, culturally vibrant places. Yet the inhabitants dislike each other with a passion that is visceral. It is a divide that spans generations, across class, gender and ethnicity. And it has grown over the years, largely driven by one thing: football. The dark, malignant loathing shared by the followers of Liverpool and...
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A memoir about battling adversity, by the winningest high school soccer coach in New York City public school history!
In the Fall of 2018, Martin Luther King Jr. High School's boys soccer program won its 18th New York City public school championship to culminate a 19–0 season in which it was ranked no. 3 in the country. Martin Jacobson, whose first championship team was in 1996, three years after he became head coach, had put together yet another...
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Rassembler des Chinois pour constituer une équipe de football, c'est possible !
Quand il arrive en Chine en 1986, Rowan Simons cherche à intégrer une équipe de football amateur avant de se rendre compte qu'il n'en existe aucune dans ce pays o toute réunion de plus de 10 personnes est encore considérée comme... une manifestation ! Profitant de sa position de présentateur à la télévision chinoise, Rowan Simons essaye alors de montrer autre...
10) Pelé: My Story
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"For an American soccer kid growing up in the '80s, Pelé transcended
the game. From the moment I first saw him standing next to Sylvester
Stallone and Michael Caine in Victory, there was only one star
for me on that screen. Pelé's exciting memoir revives all the
groundbreaking moments of the best there ever was."
-Alexi Lalas, journalist, retired professional US soccer player
The man. The legend. The autobiography.
Even people who don't...
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The history of Cairo's football fans is one of the most poignant narratives of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising. The Ultras Al-Ahly and the Ultras White Knights fans, belonging to the two main teams, Al-Ahly F.C. and Zamalek F.C respectively, became embroiled in the street protests that brought down the Mubarak regime. In the violent turmoil since, the Ultras have been locked in a bitter conflict with the Egyptian security state. Tracing these...
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Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored-the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story...
Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a fresh perspective on a momentous chapter in modern political history. Carles Viñas shows how the Russian game was transformed in just a few decades: from a minor émigré pastime, to a modernising driver...
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The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup-the world's most-viewed athletic tournament-in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary Brazilians were holding the country's biggest protest marches in decades.
Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã...
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