Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport

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Overview

Simon Kuper’s New York Times bestseller Soccernomics pioneered a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous empirical analysis and incisive—and witty— commentary. Kuper now leaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul of the world’s most popular sport in the new, extraordinarily revealing Soccer Men.

Soccer Men goes behind the scenes with soccer’s greatest players and coaches. Inquiring into the genius and hubris of the modern game, Kuper details the lives of giants such as Arsène Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Jorge Valdano, Lionel Messi, Kaká, and Didier Drogba, describing their upbringings, the soccer cultures they grew up in, the way they play, and the baggage they bring to their relationships at work.

From one of the great sportswriters of our time, Soccer Men is a penetrating and surprising anatomy of the figures that define modern soccer.

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By every indication, definitely including book sales, soccer is a sport on the rise; and, by every indication, American enthusiasts are still trying to grasp soccer savvy that many European fans seem to have been born with. Simon Kuper's Soccer Men is the perfect follow-up to his Soccernomics, which has sold 80,000 copies on this side of the Big Pond. The meticulous empirical analysis of Soccernomics won it praise as "the most intelligent book ever written about soccer"; Kuper's latest effort leaves the data behind to explore the personalities and proclivities of international stars and their managers. (P.S. The author has rare credentials to take you inside soccer: He has been writing professionally about the sport since he was sixteen.)

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Hot on the excitement over the 2011 women's World Cup comes Kuper's latest soccer gem (published in the UK as Football Men), this one featuring insights into the game's prominent men—players, managers, and a handful of others. Well qualified, Kuper (Financial Times; coauthor, Soccernomics) delivers profiles, many previously published in the Financial Times and other newspapers, of some 70 men of soccer. The players reflect on their lives away from the pitch and reveal the human side of the sport's most recognizable names—David Beckham, Franz Beckenbauer, Eric Cantona, and Zinedine Zidane. Soccer remains the central theme, but Kuper's easy interview style hides few flaws and creates some memorable moments such as those with Nicolas Anelka and Freddy Adu. An afternoon with English manager Glenn Hoddle produced a remarkable interview. Where appropriate, Kuper adds a brief postscript for an update. VERDICT Kuper is one of the world's leading soccer authors, which reinforces the highly recommended VERDICT here. With appeal beyond soccer fans.—Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., AL

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781568586878
  • Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 10/4/2011
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 70,970
  • Product dimensions: 8.20 (w) x 5.40 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Simon Kuper is one of the world’s leading writers on soccer. He is the coauthor of the national bestseller Soccernomics and author of Soccer Against the Enemy, which won the William Hill Prize. He is a columnist and feature writer for the Financial Times and lives in Paris.

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