Association football (Soccer)

*Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Children's Sports Book of the Year Award 2025*Travel to Greece and watch Cynisca, a Spartan princess, become the first ever woman to win at the ancient Olympic Games.

In recent months there has been a spate of burglaries at the houses of players from Danny's favourite football club, City FC.

Meet Danny Harte.

A superb collection of football poems covering many aspects of the game.

Yunis can't believe that he's United leading scorer.

Jake loves football and dreams of becoming a professional footballer.

An exciting football series, following the adventures of United's under-twelves side.

Ben is at his happiest playing for United and is getting top marks from the coach.

United's under-twelves are in Poland for a tournament.

Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev and a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie, Alex Finn.

The best chants, the funniest nicknames, the greatest headlines and enough little-known facts to keep the average football supporter entertained - and entertaining - for several seasons.

Danny is obsessed with two things: football especially City Football Club and investigating crimes.

*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book.

Ryan Giggs first played for Manchester United in the season before the Premiership began; back when Bryan Robson was still captain.

THE DEFINITIVE, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT FOOTBALL 'Football conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The IndependentThere may be no cultural practice more global than soccer.

Everyone has gone football crazy!

Discover the life of a footballing legend .

When Danny Harte finds out there's been an anonymous foreign buy-out of his favourite club, City, he's furious - the fans were about to buy it themselves.

Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about football with this fun-filled non-fiction reader carefully levelled to help children progress.

Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this authoritative new history examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s.

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies.

'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.

"Una extraordinaria reunión de autoras y autores que narran una selección única e irrepetible.

WITH AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A BETWEEN JIM AND KAVEH FOR THE AUDIOBOOK'The best football book of the year.

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the different environmental strategies adopted in the football world to foster sustainability.

This book examines the ways that nationalist leaders and extremist groups have used football to advance their often-violent ideological narratives and to recruit and radicalise young people.

Als Spieler, Trainer, Sportdirektor und Talentejäger ist Heinz Höher einer der ganz wenigen, die in 50 Jahren Bundesliga immer dabei waren.

FROM THE NO.

Essentials of Cerebral Palsy Football introduces the reader to the practice of Cerebral Palsy (CP) football.

This is the first book to take an in-depth look at women's football in Africa.

Miroslav Klose war einzigartiger Torjäger und selbstloser Teamspieler.

This book tells the important story of the 30-year social movement against all-seated stadia in football in England and Wales that developed in the wake of the Hillsborough stadium disaster and the wider European and international significance of that movement.

Talent development pathways in youth soccer provide opportunities for young players to realise their potential.

Talent development pathways in youth soccer provide opportunities for young players to realise their potential.

Winning strategies from the three-time European Championship winner and the only football coach ever to reach the final of five international tournaments.

Captures the illogical romance of the sport NEW STATESMANEver wondered what it would be like to run your local football club?

Das Toiletten Buch: Deutscher Fußball – Kuriose Fakten und faszinierende GeschichtenTauchen Sie ein in die Welt des deutschen Fußballs und entdecken Sie die kuriosesten Fakten und faszinierendsten Geschichten, die dieser Sport zu bieten hat.

The Inter City Firm.

Viva Colombia: A Social History of Colombian Football tells the story through 15 distinct episodes and 15 national team players.

Ally McCoist is one of Scottish football's best-loved characters.

The Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearA Times Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'The heartwarming story of the collaboration and friendship between English football s oddest couple, Elton John and Graham Taylor' The Times' A wonderful, feel-good account of an ultimately English provincial story' Simon Kuper_____________________ An unforgettable British underdog story from one of our greatest narrative nonfiction writers, John Preston, and the international musical icon and bestselling author, Sir Elton John.

Few clubs can boast a history as rich as Aston Villa Football Club.

Football, Business and State Power in Contemporary China investigates the evolving relationship between private enterprise and Party/state authority in the Xi Jinping era, through the lens of the Chinese football industry.

Football, Business and State Power in Contemporary China investigates the evolving relationship between private enterprise and Party/state authority in the Xi Jinping era, through the lens of the Chinese football industry.

Kein deutscher Fuballverein ist erfolgreicher, keiner hat mehr Fans, keiner wird vom Rest Fuballdeutschlands leidenschaftlicher gehasst: Der FC Bayern Munchen spielt in einer Liga fur sich.

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Ecological Dynamics in Sport Coaching provides coaches and students with sport-specific guidance to coaching within the ecological dynamics framework, presenting guidance to support coaches in creating representative learning designs that will enhance skill acquisition and sport performance.