How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game
You can watch soccer, or you can watch it like a genius. Understand all there is to know about the most-watched sport in the world with insights from experts, including the game’s history, its hidden logic and the architecture of the playing field itself.
A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world, just in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America, from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius
After reading this fun book, you’ll never look at soccer the same way again.
In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theory, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, and an Anglica...























