Recommended Reading from SOCCER CONNECTS…
Here are some of our favorite soccer books that demonstrate the significance of the game and its impact:
- How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
- Why Soccer Matters
- Outcasts United:An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference
- More Than Just a Game: Soccer vs. Apartheid
- The Miracle Of Castel di Sangro
- The Ball Is Round: A Global History Of Soccer
- The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness, and the Meaning of Soccer
- Soccerhead: An Accidental Journey into the Heart of the American Game
- Feet of the Chameleon: The Story f African Football
- We Had Dreams and Songs to Sing
This is often called the single best book about soccer strategy ever written:
For a better understanding of youth development and coaching soccer , check out
- Youth Development in Football: Lessons from the world’s best academies
- Soccer iQ Presents… POSSESSION: Teaching Your Team to Keep the Darn Ball
- Soccer IQ: Things That Smart Players Do, Vol. 1
Here some more great books about the beautiful game of soccer:
- The Damn Utd: a Novel
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Cultural Analysis of Manchester United
- God is Round
- The Life and Times of Herbert Chapman: The Story of One of Footballs’ Most Influential Figures
- Distant Corners: American Soccer’s History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes
- The Football Man: People & Passions in Soccer
- Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the World’s Greatest Sports Rivalry
- Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World
- Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer
- Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever
- Soccer in Sun & Shadow
- Africa United: Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa
- African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the Worlds Game
- The Italian Job: A Journey to the Heart of Two Great Footballing Cultures
- Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power
- Futebol: Soccer The Brazilian Way
- Fever Pitch
- A Season with Verona: A Soccer Fan Follows His Team Around Italy in Search of Dreams, National Character and . . . Goals!
- Football Mad! A Modern Satire of a Very Old Sport
- The Glory Game: The New Edition of the British Football Classic
- The Nowhere Men: The Unknown Story of Football’s True Talent Spotters
- Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australiaand Even IraqAre Destined to Become the Kings of the Worlds Most Popular Sport
- Behind the Curtain
- A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America
