Football category: 4223 books
Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation
Kicking off a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This is the first in-depth global study of women's football across the world. This collection considers women's football, in fifteen countries worldwide, in a global context, and analyzes its progress, challenges and problems it has faced.
It shows how women's football has made a significant...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This book is a fascinating journey through a series of scholarly articles. The journey begins by tracing one of the most significant stories in the popularization of Association Football. In the next leg of the journey it charts the diverse and changing face of the modern British game. It then moves...
Africa, Football and FIFA
Politics, Colonialism and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book explores the role of FIFA in brokering the development of football in Africa and its relationship with that continent's football associations and regional governing body. Africa is no longer on the periphery of world football but the economic disparities between the first and the third worlds...
by Tom Hay
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
‘Football is a game with 22 players, two linesmen and 20,000 referees.’
Bob Monkhouse
Treat your mates to a hearty half-time chuckle with this mini-collection of football humour – the very best quips and quotes for lovers of the beautiful game.
The Work of Professional Football
A Labour of Love?
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived.
A...
Into the Red
Liverpool FC and the Changing Face of English Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
After a decade in football wilderness, weighed down by the legacy of unmatched domestic and European successes in the 1970s and ’80s, Liverpool Football Club – under new French coach Gérard Houllier and forward-looking chief executive, Rick Parry – face up to the huge challenge of building...
FC Bayern München
Bayern Munich is the biggest sports club in Germany and the fourth biggest football club
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Fußball-Club Bayern München e.V., commonly known as FC Bayern, FC Bayern München or FC Bayern Munich, is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football...
Urban Meyer vs. College Football
The Case for College Football's Greatest Coach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Urban Meyer is collecting national championships, and he's not slowing down. Wherever he goes, greatness immediately follows, and you can always look for his teams to be highly-ranked contenders when bowl season rolls around. But is Meyer the best college football coach of all time? In Urban Meyer...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
No other national stereotype in the world is so closely tied with a sport, as Brazil is with football. The five-time world champions have constructed their national identity around this sport. Perhaps for this reason it’s no wonder that there are many Brazilian social scientists doing research on...
by Kevin McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
When the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City became the University of Florida and moved south to Gainesville in 1906, it had a very fledgling football team, although worthy opponents were difficult to find. Little by little, as the school increased in size and reputation, its football team attracted...
by Linda Fleming-Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Bill Willis, known as Poppa to his grandchildren, had always been a National Football League trailblazer and was challenged during the period of segregated football. His family life outside of the game was rarely shared. Set in Columbus, Ohio during the month of July, Poppa’s Ring provides a quick...
by Duncan Adams
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Football Grounds: A Fan’s Guide is essential reading for any supporter who intends following their team away from home during the forthcoming 2018/19 season. Covering all 92 football grounds of the English Premier and Football Leagues plus, new for this edition, the 24 teams from the National League...
Tales from the West Virginia Mountaineers Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Mountaineers Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
No one knows Mountaineers football better than Don Nehlen, head coach of the Mountaineers from 1980 until 2001. Now fans of this dynamic collegiate powerhouse will relive the greatest moments in West Virginia football through the eyes of its most successful coach.
When Coach Nehlen arrived...
Vanderbilt Football
Tales of Commodore Gridiron History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
In the Southeastern Conference arguably the most historic and competitive conference in all of college football the more blue-collar programs often get overshadowed by the dynasties (read: Alabama). So it has been with Vanderbilt's football history. Yet Vandy is one of the South's, and the country's,...