Jonathan Wilson is one of the world’s top football writers and everything he touches turns to gold. Wilson’s most recognized work, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics, is considered by many (including us) to be one of the finest books on football ever written. The same can be said for Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina and The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho, and the Fight for Football’s Soul. Wilson has written a number of others
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
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
Cover Art Courtesy of Nation Books Jonathan Wilson’s Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics is an absolute must-have for anyone with any association with the beautiful game. It breaks down the game, the real action at the field, like no other text has ever done. When it says history in its title, it really means just that, taking the technical part of the sport back to the 1870s. Every tactical innovation from every part of the world
