Zinedine Zidane
Author: Harry Lime
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 024417489X
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Sacre Bleu
Author: Spiro Matthew
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1785905872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemember when Zinédine Zidane lifted the World Cup in 1998? Kylian Mbappé doesn't. The forward wasn't born when the French team first became world champions. But it was Mbappé's unique talent that helped France reach the summit of world football once again in 2018, erasing years of failure, rancour and shame. For Les Bleus, the road between these two highs was blighted by bitterly painful lows. Zidane's headbutt; a players' strike; infighting and recriminations; even sex scandals and blackmail. Mbappé witnessed it all as he honed his prodigious talent in the banlieues of Paris, and his story embodies France's journey from disaster to triumph. In Sacré Bleu, Matthew Spiro traces the rise, fall and rise again of Les Bleus through the lens of Kylian Mbappé. Featuring a foreword by Arsène Wenger and interviews with leading figures in French football, Spiro asks what went wrong for France and what, ultimately, went right.
Revitalizing Real Madrid
Author: Scott Martin
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12-21
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReal Madrid was a broken club. As Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane walked away from the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, a full-blown identity crisis emerged. In one humiliating week, losses to Barcelona in the Copa del Rey and La Liga, as well as a UEFA Champions League exit at the hands of Ajax, effectively ended Real Madrid's hope of a 2018/19 trophy. From the highs of Zinedine Zidane's first tenure to the lows of the 2018/19 season, discover how Zizou revitalized a broken Real Madrid squad. "Revitalizing Real Madrid - The Tactics and Stats behind Zinedine Zidane's Success" takes an in-depth look at the ideas fueling Real Madrid's 2019/20 La Liga title run. Once a high-scoring team with a leaky defense, Zidane reshaped the team's approach, transforming them into Europe's top defensive side. Through tactical visualizations and contextualized statistics from Scott Martin, a senior analyst for Total Football Analysis, experience the revitalization of world soccer's greatest heavyweight, Real Madrid.
Soccer
Author: Christopher Morris
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 2008-07-29
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history, moves, rules, and greatest players of soccer.
Soccer Empire
Author: Laurent Dubois
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0520945743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. During the 2006 World Cup finals, Zidane stunned the country by ending his spectacular career with an assault on an Italian player. In Soccer Empire, Laurent Dubois illuminates the connections between empire and sport by tracing the story of World Cup soccer, from the Cup’s French origins in the 1930s to Africa and the Caribbean and back again. As he vividly recounts the lives of two of soccer’s most electrifying players, Zidane and his outspoken teammate, Lilian Thuram, Dubois deepens our understanding of the legacies of empire that persist in Europe and brilliantly captures the power of soccer to change the nation and the world.
The World through Soccer
Author: Tamir Bar-On
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-05-07
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1442234741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly every country. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport impacts countless aspects of the world’s culture, from politics and religion to business and the arts. In The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport, Tamir Bar-On utilizes soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, ethics, marketing, business, leadership, philosophy, and the arts. Bar-On examines the ways in which soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter features representative players, providing specific examples of how soccer comments on and informs our lives. These players—selected from a wide array of eras, countries, and backgrounds—include Diego Maradona, Pelé, Hugo Sánchez, Cha Bum-Kun, Roger Milla, José Luis Chilavert, Zinedine Zidane, Paolo Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Neymar, Clint Dempsey, Mia Hamm, and many others. Employing a unique lens to view a variety of topics, The World through Soccer reveals the sport’s profound cultural impact. Combining philosophical, popular, and academic insights about our world, this book is aimed at both soccer fans and academics, offering readers a new perspective into a sport that affects millions.
White Angels
Author: John Carlin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-08
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1596919639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at soccer superstar David Beckham, the Real Madrid team he joined in 2003, and at how this combination has forever changed the face of the world's most popular sport.
Va-Va-Voom
Author: Tom Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-04-25
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 139940394X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Excellent' – Simon Kuper, author of the bestselling FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY 'The definitive story of how French football came of age' – Christian Karembeu 'Erudite and engrossing' – Vincent Duluc, lead football writer, L'ÉQUIPE THE PLAYERS, THE TEAMS, THE GOALS, THE GAMES, THE SCANDALS, THE GLOOM AND THE GLORY: THE STORY OF FRENCH FOOTBALL'S TURBULENT EVOLUTION OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS. French football is an enigma: a mixture of brilliance and farce, flair and frailty, stunning success and abject failure. Its domestic league is mocked on social media as an uncompetitive 'Farmers League' and its clubs ridiculed for underachieving in European competitions. But France have reached four of the past seven men's World Cup finals, French players star for the world's best clubs and at its best – the roar of the Vélodrome, the glamour of the Parc des Princes, the shimmering brilliance of Zinédine Zidane, Éric Cantona and Kylian Mbappé – French football has few equals. When it comes to scandal, meanwhile, the French are the best in the business, from sensational match-fixing affairs to squabbles over sex tapes and meltdowns within the national squad. Tom Williams brings to life French football's evolution over the last 40 years. He details how the idealistic romanticism of the national team in the early 1980s gave way to an Italian-style pragmatism that would lead Les Bleus to the summit of the international game, and examines how several star-studded club sides grappled with the thorny notion of how to win. By delving into French football's rich history, the book explains the myriad ways – tactical, technical and cultural – in which France has shaped the game's evolution around the world. Featuring exclusive interviews with great figures of the French game such as Alain Giresse, Jean-Pierre Papin, Emmanuel Petit and Blaise Matuidi, and with a cast of characters that also includes Michel Platini, Thierry Henry, Karim Benzema, Chris Waddle and Lionel Messi, it's a book no football fan will want to miss. ---- 'A comprehensive account of the highs, lows and scandals of French football' – Jonathan Wilson, author of the bestselling INVERTING THE PYRAMID
Sports and Violence
Author: Craig Hovey
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1443879401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSports and Violence is an edited collection arising out of the 2016 Sports and Violence Conference, hosted at the Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University, Ohio, USA. This volume contains 11 essays authored by a range of scholars reflecting on the confluence of violence within organized sports. The three sections of the book (history, theory, and practice) create a full-scale exploration of this topic. The authors not only detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offer ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence. Crucial to the volume’s treatment of a wide range of phenomena associated with sports violence is not only how it addresses violence within sport, but also how it considers the ways that sport fosters and mitigates violence outside of sports, and how audiences and spectators contribute to, and are shaped by, the practice of sports.
