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        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2012

        Foreign players and football supporters

        The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain

        by David Ranc

        'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports. ;

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        Football (Soccer, Association football)
        October 2016

        England and the 1966 World Cup

        A cultural history

        by John Hughson

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2017

        England and the 1966 World Cup

        A cultural history

        by John Hughson

        England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history. Regarded as having an importance beyond its primary sporting purpose, the World Cup in England is examined within the complexity of the cultural, social and political changes that characterised the mid-1960s. Yet, although addressing the importance of non-sport related connections, the book maintains a focus on football, discussing it as a 'cultural form' and presenting an original perspective on the aesthetic accomplishment in football tactics by England's manager, Alf Ramsey. The study considers the World Cup in relation to the cup tradition, England as the World Cup host nation, the England squad and masculinity, the modernism of England's manager Alf Ramsey, design and commercial aspects of the World Cup, a critical engagement within existing academic accounts, and an examination of how England's victory has been remembered and commemorated.

      • Trusted Partner
        Football (Soccer, Association football)

        Foreign players and football supporters

        The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain

        by David Ranc

        'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football. How true is this? Foreign players and football supporters: The Old Firm, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain is the first academic book to look at supporters' reactions to the increase in the number of foreign players in the very clubs they support week in week out. It shows that football supporters identify with their club through a variety of means, which may change or be replaced with others, and provides the most comprehensive view on football supporters' attachment to their club in the European Union, following the increase in European legislation. Divided into three case studies on Glasgow (Celtic and Rangers), Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in London, the book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to chart the evolution of the link between supporters and club between 1995 and today. It is based on extensive research through the press of three nations, as well as interviews with officials and supporters. It provides an excellent read for students and researchers in Sports Studies, Politics, European Studies, French Studies and other Social Sciences, or to anyone interested in one of the most original institutions of contemporary western societies: mass spectator sports.

      • Football (Soccer, Association football)
        April 2015

        United in Europe

        Manchester United's Complete European Record

        by Chris Davies

        Manchester United were England's first representatives in the European Cup back in September, 1956. No English club has played more games in Europe and FIFA's global club competitions than United. United in Europe gives you more details, more names, more facts, more stats than ever before. It tells you who played in every game - United and their opponents. It tells you why United blamed Bruce Springsteen for a Champions League defeat. It details every team sheet at European and inter-continental level over a glorious period of almost 60 years. Who has scored the most goals for United in each competition? Why did United play home ties at Maine Road and Plymouth? How every United manager fared at the highest level in European football and much, much more.

      • Football (Soccer, Association football)
        August 2015

        We're Everywhere, Us

        Liverpool's 2014/15 Season Told Through the Stories of Fans and Foe

        by Sachin Nakrani and Karl Coppack

        A diary of Liverpool Football Club's 2014/15 season, with a difference. The book may kick off with a chapter on the season opener and end with the last game; but this diary isn't written by a single author. Nor does it focus heavily on the actual football. Instead, We're Everywhere, Us is a collaboration - a compilation of pieces offering a different personal take on what it means to support Liverpool. Friendship. Family. Travel. Tragedy. Work. Each piece is a long, rich read, completely unique and distinct from those that precede and follow it. Some of the finest writers on Liverpool FC are involved, including Kevin Sampson, Simon Hughes, Tony Evans, Gareth Roberts and Mike Nevin. There are also contributions from Liverpool supporters living abroad, which gives We're Everywhere, Us a truly international feel - while opposition fans add yet another perspective on Liverpool FC's season, our captivating city and proud history.

      • Football (Soccer, Association football)
        March 2013

        FA Cup Miscellany

        Trivia, History, Facts & Stats from Football's Most Famous Cup

        by Michael Keane

        The FA Cup Miscellany collects together all the vital information you never knew you needed to know about the world's oldest cup competition. In these pages you will find irresistible anecdotes and the most mindblowing stats and facts. Heard the one about the referee who had to hide in a broom cupboard from a furious, naked goalkeeper? How about the gypsy curse that lasted for decades? Or the time Jeremy Paxman tackled Kenny Dalglish? Do you know how an FA Cup quarter-final between Notts County and Stoke changed football forever? Which current player has a winner's medal for every day of the week? Or how a fragile corner flag stopped some Spartans from marching on? All these stories and hundreds more appear in a brilliantly researched collection of trivia - essential for any football fan who holds the riches of almost 140 years of Cup culture close to their heart.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        October 2019

        Indomable

        Cuadernos del fútbol africano

        by Alberto Edjogo-Owono

        This book talks about Africa and its football, trying to illuminate the overflowing, fierce and profound story of a continent that has been overshadowed too many times. The ball is a reflection of the impulses that run through it, and traces a path through which to approach its people, their stories and their desires. Politics, war or religion are intertwined with leather in every city, in every stadium and on every page. Alberto Edjogo-Owono, international with Equatorial Guinea, makes his debut in the literary world trying to discover where this indomitable land gets the strength to rise up after everything was taken from it.

      • Football (Soccer, Association football)
        February 2020

        Rivalidades crónicas

        10 ciudades europeas a través de sus derbis

        by Jordi Brescó and Pau Riera

        Football shapes cities, and derbies turn them upside down. Two friends travel to ten European cities (Istanbul, Belfast, Belgrade, Sheffield...) to narrate and photograph them, and use football as their gateway and common thread. Because the king of sports is an instrument as effective as any other to delve into the political, social, economic and cultural reality of a place.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        October 2022

        Grada Popular

        by Ignacio Pato

        Whose football is it? Judging by the direction it's taking, men in suits and expensive perfumes are about to expropriate a sport that belonged to the people. Now that the ball is moving away from the stands, this book redirects the focus and points to the fan. Ignacio Pato travels through eight cities to meet eight clubs and eight feelings: those of the fans of Liverpool, AEK, Napoles, Velez Mostar, Olympique de Marseille, Rapid Vienna, Besiktas and Rayo Vallecano. Communities that are a beacon of resistance and romance. With an enthusiastic style, the author runs away from the past to strengthen a relationship that will never be broken. Soccer is the people's game.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        October 2010

        Coaching Mini Soccer

        A Tried and Tested Program of Essential Skills and Drills for 5 to 10 year olds

        by Richard Seedhouse

        Coaching Mini Soccer (5 - 10 years) book contains a complete and proven full season training program comprising 12 main sessions and over 70 interchangeable drills to coach the skills required to produce academy standard players and teams.   FACT - eight players in the last three years have been signed by professional clubs through participation in this program. In its basic form the program can be used by grassroots youth clubs for coaching skills in their soccer academies, community soccer programs, after school programs, or by primary school teachers as a term based program.   As the players develop through the program and form Mini-Soccer teams the coach can draw on the programs tactical games to aid formations and small sided games to improve creativity, game awareness and problem solving.   Bonus drills are also included as the program matures with the players providing an easy to follow and proven structure for any club, team or school to follow. This is simply the only book any coach of players between 5 and 10 years will ever need to provide proven training sessions every single week.   Does it work?   In 2010 the local Championship Club took 5 players at U9 from its home city, 3 of them were from Coundon Court FC this made 8 players in three years signed by two different professional clubs and all coached using the program in this book.   Coaching Mini-Soccer is specifically written to be the only book any coach of players between 5 and 10 will ever need to provide proven training sessions every single week.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2011

        Italian Academy Training Sessions Book for U11-14

        A Complete Coaching Program

        by Mirko Mazzantini / Simone Bombardieri

        Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both professional football coaches and in this book provide a full soccer training program from their top Italian Serie ‘A’ academies. This book contains 12 complete soccer training sessions detailing over 80 practices and progressions as used in the academies of the Serie ‘A’. Each session focuses on technical or tactical elements of training and are structured “from simple practices to more complex game situations”. This outlines a complete program of training across the 12 sessions.   The 12 sessions (over 80 practices) cover the following attributes: Technical training; passing and receiving, quick combination play, possession, ball control and dribbling, 1 v 1’s, feints and moves to beat, crossing, finishing, shooting and heading, football specific conditioning with and without the ball, coordination, acceleration, speed, and agility training. Tactical training; game situations, tactical small sided games, phase of plays, creating space and improving game intelligence, possession play, attacking combinations, Psycho-Kinetics (Think and Act Quickly), quick transitional play, defensive positioning, set plays, build-up play from the back and more.   Most of the practices cleverly structured for “global training” which means working on more than one attribute at the same time. This is valid for all players, with drills and exercises for specific roles (Attackers, midfielders and defenders).   There are also numerous variations for many of the practices, meaning that the 12 sessions can be repeated again and again providing great practices for any coach to produce academy level training sessions.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2012

        FC Barcelona: A Tactical Analysis - Defending Book

        Defending

        by Athanasios Terzis

        A Team from Another Planet! A Tactical Blue-Print of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona Team   This book is an exclusive and groundbreaking study of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team. This information and analysis of one of the most successful club sides in history has been in high demand and it is finally here! The defensive part of Barcelona’s game does not get enough attention, but is integral to their philosophy and all their superior style of play. The main elements of their tactics include pressure high up the pitch, winning the ball back quickly, maintaining a numerical advantage around the ball zone and pushing their opponents wide to limit their space.   We can now see a full analysis of Barcelona’s defensive tactics which have been so important to their success. The book shows Barca’s 4-3-3 system of play, each player’s responsibilities, positioning and movement within every possible phase of play. Terzis Athanasios is a Tactical Professor of Football and has compiled an extensive assessment of Barcelona’s attacking play after over 1000 hours of studying all the games from the 2010-11 season. Guardiola’s team has won 3 La Liga championships, 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, 4 Spanish Cups, 2 Super Cups, and 2 FIFA World Club World Cups.   The book starts with the characteristics of the players and the philosophy of Barcelona and builds into a comprehensive overview of the defensive tactics employed with clear diagrams and detailed descriptions. This gives football coaches an unbelievable chance to learn how Barcelona play and adapt their tactics to combat any team they play. Their defensive work is so important to their success and allows them to be such a strong attacking force.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        June 2012

        Coaching The Coach 2

        Soccer Coach Development through Functional Practices, Phase of Plays and Small Sided Games Book

        by Richard Seedhouse

        Coaching The Coach 2 follows the 2007 release of the number 1 best-selling football coaching book “Coaching The Coach: A Complete Guide How to Coach Soccer Skills Through Drills” which continues to sell thousands of copies worldwide. Coaching The Coach 2 - Soccer Coach Development through Functional Practices, Phase of Plays and Small Sided Games, the long awaited second book IN FULL COLOUR, will help you develop even further. This is not just another book with lots of drills, it clearly shows how a coach can progress their practices and build training sessions. It provides more detailed knowledge in the form of coaching points as well as an understanding of why and how you can utilise them within functional drills, phase of plays and small sided games. This book provides coaching awareness and the realisation of how you can manipulate and adapt practices to coach and improve your players. Coaching The Coach 2 is written in the same popular easy to read question and answer format but is also much improved with very easy to understand new style 3D diagrams for all the practices. This book will improve the way you understand, develop and progress: - Functional drills - Phase of Plays - Small Sided Games Coaching The Coach 2 will improve your knowledge, understanding and therefore your coaching.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        August 2012

        Spanish Academy Soccer Coaching

        120 Practices from the Coaches of Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid & Athletic Bilbao

        by Jon Moreno Martinez / Santiago Esposito / Jose A. Fernandez Lopez / Iván Madroño Campos

        "Learn How To Coach The Spanish Academy Way!" A Chance for You to Learn and Use the same sessions from the Professional Academy Coaches of Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao This incredible book IN FULL COLOUR contains Spanish coaching philosophies as well as 120 practices as used in the academies of the Spanish La Liga. There are technical and tactical practices for a wide range of topics ideal for coaches at youth level wanting to develop their team to world leading 'Spanish academy standards'. Jon Moreno Martinez (Athletic Bilbao Academy Coach) explains the Spanish coaching philosophies at youth and academy levels. His methods and planning and shows you how to build training sessions.He focuses on both technical and tactical work including ball control, support play, passing, possession and decision making. His chapter includes 12 different practices that they use at the Athletic Bilbao Academy. Santiago Esposito (Atlético Madrid U11 Academy Coach) focuses on technical training for 8-12 year olds which includes ball control/dribbling, moves to beat, 1 v 1 duels, passing, team play; crossing and shooting. Santiago shows you 33 different practices that they use at the Atlético Madrid Academy. Jose A. Fernandez Lopez (Real Madrid U15 Academy Coach) shows you how to set out dynamic and structured drills, as well as advice on how to run a successful football team. These practices have an emphasis on passing combination, possession, and transition play. Jose shows you 39 different practices that they use at the Real Madrid Academy. Iván Madroño Campos (Real Madrid Academy Coach) outlines how to improve technique in the youth team stage. He also explains the importance of how technique is relevant to good decision making. Iván shows you 34 different practices that they use at the Real Madrid Academy.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        November 2012

        Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid: A Tactical Analysis - Attacking in the 4-2-3-1 Book

        by Athanasios Terzis

        A chance for you to learn Mourinho's 4-2-3-1 System of Play, Tactics, each Player’s Responsibilities, Positioning & Movement with every possible Phase of Play The long awaited study of Jose Mourinho’s tactics is finally here with an extensive analysis of his Real Madrid team’s 4-2-3-1 formation. The attacking phase was key for Real Madrid and the main features were creating width, maintaining superiority in numbers around the ball zone, long diagonal passes, in/out swinging crosses from the flank and Ronaldo’s efficiency in front of goal. Terzis Athanasios is a Tactical Professor of Football and has compiled an extensive assessment of Real Madrid’s defensive play after over 1000 hours of studying all the games from the 2011-12 season. Real Madrid won the La Liga title, beating Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team, one of the most successful club sides in history, by 9 points. This attacking book starts with the characteristics of the players and builds into a comprehensive overview of the attacking tactics employed with clear diagrams and detailed descriptions. Don’t miss this unbelievable chance for you to learn Jose Mourinho’s 4-2-3-1, how the team play and adapt their tactics to all conceivable situations. Their attacking play was key to their great success and the blueprint is available right here for you to learn and apply the same tactics for your team.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        November 2012

        Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid: A Tactical Analysis - Defending in the 4-2-3-1 Book

        by Athanasios Terzis

        A chance for you to learn Mourinho's 4-2-3-1 System of Play, Tactics, each Player’s Responsibilities, Positioning & Movement with every possible Phase of Play The long awaited study of Jose Mourinho’s tactics is finally here with an extensive analysis of his Real Madrid team’s 4-2-3-1 formation. The defensive phase was key for Real Madrid and the main features were applying pressure near the opposition’s penalty area to regain the ball, aggressive zonal marking across the whole pitch, using intelligent positioning to double mark opposing players and Xabi Alonso’s great tactical awareness. Terzis Athanasios is a Tactical Professor of Football and has compiled an extensive assessment of Real Madrid’s defensive play after over 1000 hours of studying all the games from the 2011-12 season. Real Madrid won the La Liga title, beating Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona team, one of the most successful club sides in history, by 9 points. This defending book starts with the characteristics of the players and builds into a comprehensive overview of the defensive tactics employed with clear diagrams and detailed descriptions. Don’t miss this unbelievable chance for you to learn Jose Mourinho’s 4-2-3-1, how the team play and adapt their tactics to all conceivable situations. Their defensive play was key to their great success and the blueprint is available right here for you to learn and apply the same tactics for your team.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        November 2012

        Jose Mourinho Attacking Sessions

        114 Practices from Goal Analysis of Real Madrid’s 4-2-3-1

        by Michail Tsokaktsidis

        Learn how to coach your team to play like "the best counter attacking team in the world " with 114 practices organised into 30 ready-made sessions This incredible book IN FULL COLOUR (Jose Mourinho Attacking Sessions) is the first in a series of books which provide you with a blueprint of how to attack and score goals like the world’s best teams. Michail is a UEFA ‘A’ licenced coach and has provided a full and extensive analysis of Real Madrid’s best 48 goals in the 2011-2012 season, when they scored a record 121 goals to win the Spanish Championship (La Liga). This goal analysis of Jose Mourinho’s tactics has been used to produce 114 practices organised into 30 ready-made sessions. Each goal is analysed, followed by a full session on that specific topic of Real’s attacking play, with clear colour diagrams, detailed descriptions and coaching points. You can use these ready-made sessions to practice Real Madrid’s attacking play and combinations. You can learn exactly how Real found attacking solutions for every tactical situation created by opponent’s who defended with a deep, middle or high defensive line. A large section of this book is based on the transition phase. You can learn how to coach your team to play like ‘the best counter attacking team in the world.’ There are sessions on the transition from defence to attack in the low, middle and high zones. Practices include: - Functional Technical Practices - Phases of Plays - Opposed/Unopposed Zone play - Counter-Attacking Exercises - Transition Games - Small Sided Games

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