Cover Art Courtesy of Nation Books When you talk about FC Barcelona, you always talk about great teams, players, thinkers, and coaching minds. But after reading The Barcelona Inheritance: The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola by Jonathan Wilson, you should add great writers to that list. Wilson is arguably the world’s top football writer, having already composed several incredibly successful books and contributed to the Guardian, Sports Illustrated, World Soccer, and The Blizzard. Becoming a published author
Johan Cruyff is arguably the greatest to ever play the beautiful game. He excelled at every stop with his impact heaviest in Holland, Spain, and the U.S. He rose to the top of the club and international game and never left. It’s quite easy to see that he is bigger than Pelé, Maradona, Messi, Ronaldo, and di Stéfano combined. But Cruyff’s legacy is not limited to the pitch, he left his mark everywhere he went. That legacy extended to the board room,
Photos Provided by Hachette Book Group Jürgen Klopp and Raphael Honigstein are a great pairing. They are among the best of the best in their fields, albeit on different sides of the beautiful game. Klopp, arugably the top manager in the Premier League and perhaps the world, is the subject of Honigstein’s latest book, Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story. Honigstein is a leading expert on German football, making his name as a renowned journalist whose work is known all
When an award-winning journalist like David Conn speaks, you listen. When Conn writes a book, you read it. That’s certainly the case with The Fall of the House of FIFA: The Multimillion-Dollar Corruption at the Heart of Global Soccer, a June offering from Nation Books. Cover Art Courtesy of Nation Books The Fall of the House of FIFA is quite an impressive read, one that is is part history book and part exposé. It’s easily the
Johan Cruyff is one of the best players to ever play the beautiful game, arguably the best. It’s quite fitting that his autobiography, My Turn: A Life of Total Football, is one of the best sports titles of 2016. That’s right; this is a title that goes beyond football. It is a great text, a beautiful story about a brilliant athlete that would be enjoyed by any sports fan. Having it as an offering from Nation Books is an added bonus as
Argentinian soccer has been blessed with some of the world’s greatest players over the years, easily making it one of the best nations for the beautiful game. Jonathan Wilson’s Angels with Dirty Faces: How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever is Argentina’s story from start to finish, an epic read of the highest quality. It all starts with Wilson, who is easily one of the world’s most beloved soccer writers. Most of you will remember him from
There is no question that Raphael Honigstein is the world’s top expert on German soccer. It’s no accident that his most recent offering, Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World, is one of the most promising books of the year. It is a definitive text on the modern German game, much like David Winner’s Brilliant Orange was for Dutch football. Cover Art Courtesy of Nation Books We had the pleasure of reading this one during a bit of
Sid Lowe is a Spanish football genius, the equivalent of a Messi or Ronaldo in the world of football pundits. Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid, and the World’s Greatest Sports Rivalry is a masterpiece, something that explains the true greatness of the Barca/Madrid rivalry. Put it this way: you won’t understand the importance of “El Clasico” until you read this book. Cover Art Courtesy of Nation Books Yes, this derby is bigger than anything in
Football is life. That might has well been the title of David Goldblatt’s newest work, one that takes on the enormous task of explaining the Brazilian way of football. In Brazil football is a big part of life and politics and history, part of the social fabric of an emerging nation and future global anchor. It is an obsession that has taken the huge country by storm and it has been that way for years. Cover Art Courtesy of Nation
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