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        May 2024

        Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, or Not the Miracle of Bern

        What if everything had been different in German football

        by Jörg Heinrich

        “Well, that’s football for you!” – football-related conventional wisdom when there’s nothing left to explain after a lucky win or unlucky defeat. But Jörg Heinrich, the renowned football journalist, is not satisfied with this platitude. “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda”: in the 25 essays in this ball-smart book, bursting with esprit and wit, Jörg Heinrich addresses questions and topics that have never even been considered before, never mind answered. Such as: “What if Günter Netzer had not come on as a substitute in 1973?”, or “if Birgit Prinz had aimed better in the 1995 World Cup?”. “What if Mario Basler had been a non-smoker in 1999”, or “if SC Freiburg had fired their coach Christian Streich after relegation in 2015?”.

      • Trusted Partner
        May 2012

        Fifa-Mafia

        Die schmutzigen Geschäfte mit dem Weltfußball

        by Kistner, Thomas

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2022

        Everyday foreign policy

        by Elizaveta Gaufman

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        Children's & YA
        March 2020

        Amelie Trott and the Earth Watchers

        by Moyra Irving

        This is the extraordinary story of how one small girl stopped a planetary catastrophe. It’s a very timely book, written for the child in us all, with a forceful message about the power of young people to transform the world - a theme currently demonstrated by brave young heroes like Greta Thunberg. And with magical synchronicity, the very week Greta began her lone vigil outside the Swedish government last year, over 1,000 miles (1,897 km) away in the fictional world of books, Amelie Trott took to Parliament Square, London - on a mission to avert the End of the World. It’s a family drama with an international feel - set mainly in England but with episodes in Washington DC and around the world.

      • FIFA Football Encyclopedia

        Everything you need to know about the beautiful game

        by Emily Stead

        Full of the latest facts, stats and records, plus profiles of the best teams and players on the planet, and essential info about the top leagues and tournaments in world football. The FIFA Football Encyclopedia will make you an expert of the most popular game in the world. The pages are brimming with the latest facts, stats and records, plus punchy profiles of the best teams and players on the planet, and essential info about the top leagues and tournaments in world football. What's more, you can get the lowdown on the ever-changing world of managers and tactics. With updates at the end of each season, the FIFA Football Encyclopedia will make an essential purchase for every football-hungry child aged 8+.

      • Football (Soccer, Association football)

        Brazil Player by Player

        by Liam McCann

        THE BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL TEAM is believed to have played its first official match in 1914 against English club side Exeter City, which they won 2-0. Their first full international was against Argentina the same year. Since then they have become the most successful international football team in history. 'The English invented it, the Brazilians perfected it' is a phrase often heard in Brazil and the side has backed this up by winning the FIFA World Cup a record five times.

      • February 2023

        The Third World Cup

        by Alejandro Wall and Gastón Edul

        In April 2022, soccer fans worldwide finally found out which teams would be in Group C of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Poland, and Mexico. One month before Argentina’s first game, the team’s situation was critical: some players were injured, others had not played for a long time, and a third group was not performing well with the international teams where they regularly played. Even worse, Lionel Messi injured his ankle the Saturday before Argentina’s first World Cup game.   Argentina started on the wrong foot. On November 22nd, they lost their first match to Saudi Arabia but four days later Argentina scored two goals against Mexico and repeated their success against Poland in the last soccer match of their group. Argentine soccer fans and fans around the world thought that this team will be eliminated as easily as it had been in the 2022 World Cup in Korea and Japan, but it fought back. Their players fought to prove that they were not the ‘dark horse’ of the competition.  Three more matches were enough to take Argentina to the final game on December 18th, 2022: first, a victory against Australia; then a tie against the Netherlands (broken later with a set of penalties), and finally a victory against Croatia.   This is the difficult road taken by the Argentinean national team which waited 36 years to win the World Cup. Every kick, every goal, and every penalty was another step to ultimate victory in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

      • Computer games: strategy guides
        October 2012

        PlayStation

        by The Cheatmistress

        Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, tips and walkthrough guides. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous Cheat Mistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over seven million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites and now eBooks, we have been there for gamers when they've needed us the most. With EZ Cheats: Video Game Cheats, Tips and Secrets: For PlayStation 3, PSP, PS2 and PSone, we aim to help you unlock the game's full potential with a series of tips, cheat codes, secrets, unlocks and/or achievement guides. Whether you want to find out how to spawn specific vehicles, learn how to open up harder difficulty settings, or discover sneaky ways to earn additional ingame currency, we have the answers. EZ Cheats are compiled by expert gamers who are here to help you get the most out of your games.EZ Cheats: Video Game Cheats, Tips and Secrets: For PlayStation 3 & PSP covers all of the top titles, including Batman Arkham City, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception, Mortal Combat, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, LA Noir, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, FIFA 12, Saints Row the Third amongst many more top titles.

      • Fiction

        Lemon

        by Kwon YeonSun

        THOUGH THE BOOK LOOSELY FOLLOWS THE STRUCTURE OF A DETECTIVE NOVEL, finding the perpetrator is not the main objective here. Instead, the work explores grief and trauma, and asks important questions about guilt, retribution, and the meaning of death and life. In the summer of the 2002, when Korea is abuzzwith the Korea-Japan FIFA World Cup, a beautiful nineteen-year-old girl named Hae-on is murdered in what would become known as the High School Beauty Murder. There are two suspects: rich boy Shin Jeongjun, whose car Hae-on was last seen in, and fried chicken delivery boy Han Manu, who witnesses Hae-on in the passenger seat of Jeongjun’s car just a few hours before her death. The novel begins with a scene in which Hae-on’s younger sister imagines a police detective interrogating Han Manu.However, Jeongjun’s alibi turns out to be solid, and no evidence can be pinned on Manu, the identity of the murderer is never discovered. The case remains unsolved for years, throwing the people surrounding the event into turmoil, especially Da-on, who is unable to move on with her life. In the course of the next seventeen years, she undergoes plastic surgery to look like her sister and even gives her own daughter a name very similar to her sister’s, ultimately setting out to discover the truth of what happened, all in hopes that she would recover some ofwhatshehaslost. Lemonistoldatdifferentpointsintimefromthreedifferentalternating female perspectives: Da-on, Hae-on’s younger sister; Tae-rim, Hae-on’s classmate who was jealous of her; and Sanghui, another classmate of Hae-on’s who also knew Da-on.

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2012

        FC Barcelona: A Tactical Analysis - Attacking Book

        Attacking

        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 attacking play of Barcelona is admired by every coach, player and fan in the world. Each player movement and passing combination is broken down in detail for every coach to apply these tactics to their own team. Here is the chance to learn to play the ‘Bara way.’ We now have a full analysis of Barcelona’s 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 offensive tactics employed with clear diagrams and detailed descriptions. This gives football coaches an unbelievable chance to learn how Barcelona play and employ their tactics to maintain possession, create chances and score goals. Barcelona is by far the best attacking team of the modern era and now you can see how and why this is the case.

      • 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
        April 2021

        Sueños de la Euro

        El torneo que reconcilió a un continente

        by Miguel L. Pereira

        As Paul Auster once said, football is the miracle that allowed Europe to hate itself without destroying itself. The ball has done more than any other political project for brotherhood in a land too used to fighting with itself. After each conflict, it was necessary for the ball to be there to make the continent a space of union and not a perpetual trench. For this reason, every time the European Championship is held, there is a part of the world that looks into each other's eyes and shakes hands. For this reason, when we write about the 60 years of history of this emblematic tournament, we are really drawing our memories, our fears and our desires as Europeans. Because the dreams of Delaunay, Panenka, Charisteas, Aragonés or Éder are also our dreams.

      • 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.

      • Fiction
        March 2019

        Do Not Say It's Not Your Country

        by Nnamdi Oguike

        Do Not Say It's Not Your Country is filled with fascinating characters: a South African woman and her children crowding an iron shack in Blikkiesdorp; a Madagascan slum boy who gets a job as a cook in Antananarivo; a shy Sierra Leonean girl who falls in love with a sly fisherman; a wily Nigerian prophet whose tricks are exposed; a Kenyan couple back in their old ways after confirmation in church – and many more. With themes such as love and innocence, terrorism and slavery, this brilliant book takes you on a tour of Africa and beyond, to meet more of humanity in its beauty and its pain.

      • Computer games: strategy guides
        August 2012

        The Games of the Decade

        The Games of the Decade

        by The Cheat Mistress

        Cheats Unlimited are the specialists when it comes to video game cheats, walkthrough guides, reviews and fetures. Fronted by the glamorous and gorgeous Cheatmistress, Cheats Unlimited has helped over five million gamers worldwide over the last 12 years. Through phone lines, fax machines, the Web and WAP sites and now eBooks, we have been there for gamers when they've needed us the most.With EZ Guides we aim to help you through the top games on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, DS and PSP, step by step from beginning to end in an easy and entertaining way. Along the way we'll teach you about the game's top secrets and the best way to unlock that Achievement / Trophy. EZ Guides are written by dedicated gamers who are here to help you through the difficult times in gaming.EZ Guides: The Games of the Decade covers the past ten years of gaming, including the Playstation 2, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, DS and PSP. The book contains detailed insights into the best games of the past ten years, plus numerous retrospectives and entertaining features. Take a trip down nostalgia lane, or perhaps even learn a thing or two about the past 10 years of video games. Games of the Decade is the literal alternative to taking your handheld gaming console on that long journey.Formats Covered:Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP, DS, PS2.

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