Fever Pitch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fever Pitch write by Nick Hornby. This book was released on 2005-05-05. Fever Pitch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *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. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle
From Football to Soccer
From Football to Soccer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Football to Soccer write by Brian D. Bunk. This book was released on 2021-08-24. From Football to Soccer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rediscovering soccer's long history in the U.S. Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer's emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States—and the beautiful game's transformation into a truly international sport. A multilayered look at one game’s place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history.
Soccer in a Football World
Soccer in a Football World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soccer in a Football World write by David Wangerin. This book was released on 2008-03-15. Soccer in a Football World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Beckham’s arrival in Los Angeles represents the latest attempt to jump-start soccer in the United States where, David Wangerin says, it “remains a minority sport.” With the rest of the globe so resolutely attached to the game, why is soccer still mostly dismissed by Americans? Calling himself “a soccer fan born in the wrong country at nearly the wrong time,” Wangerin writes with wit and passion about the sport’s struggle for acceptance in Soccer in a Football World. A Wisconsin native, he traces the fragile history of the game from its early capitulation to gridiron on college campuses to the United States’ impressive performance at the 2002 World Cup. Placing soccer in the context of American sport in general, he chronicles its enduring struggle alongside the country’s more familiar pursuits and recounts the shifting attitudes toward the “foreign” game. His story is one that will enrich the perspective of anyone whose heart beats for the sport, and is curious as to where the game has been in America—and where it might be headed.
The Age of Football: Soccer and the 21st Century
The Age of Football: Soccer and the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Football: Soccer and the 21st Century write by David Goldblatt. This book was released on 2020-02-18. The Age of Football: Soccer and the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A monumental exploration of soccer and society in our time—by its preeminent historian. The Age of Football proves that whether you call it football or soccer, you can’t make sense of the modern world without understanding its most popular sport. With breathtaking scope and an unparalleled knowledge of the game, David Goldblatt—author of the best-selling The Ball Is Round—charts soccer’s global cultural ascent, economic transformation, and deep politicization.
Soccer Vs. the State
Soccer Vs. the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soccer Vs. the State write by Gabriel Kuhn. This book was released on 2011. Soccer Vs. the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its working-class roots to commercialisation and resistance to it - this is football history for the politically conscious fan. Football is a multi-billion pound industry. Professionalism and commercialisation dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by money-makers and corrupt politicians. Soccer vs. The State traces its amazing history.
