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12 Best Soccer Books

Goal: Find the best Soccer books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best soccer books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

12 Best Soccer Books

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1

Fever Pitch

by Nick Hornby

2

Inverting The Pyramid

The History of Soccer Tactics

by Jonathan Wilson

3

Among the Thugs

by Bill Buford

4

How Soccer Explains the World

An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

by Franklin Foer

5

Soccernomics

Why England Loses; Why Germany, Spain, and France Win; and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

by Simon Kuper

6

The Ball is Round

A Global History of Soccer

by David Goldblatt

7

The Miracle of Castel di Sangro

A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy

by Joe McGinniss

8

Brilliant Orange

The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer

by David Winner

9

Morbo

The Story of Spanish Football

by Phil Ball

10

The Beckham Experiment

How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America

by Grant Wahl

11

The Damned Utd

by David Peace

12

The Fix

Soccer and Organized Crime

by Declan Hill

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