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Football Legends 2023
by David BallheimerWho's better, Messi or Ronaldo? Which midfielder creates more chances, De Bruyne or Frenkie de Jong? Who's the best penalty saver, Alisson or Neuer? While every fan has their opinion, here's your chance to back yours up with the latest stats and infographics featured in Football Legends 2023 and show friends that you're as insightful as the game's best pundits!Showcasing the top 100 stars in the modern game, the book offers the latest facts and stats of players in every position who play in Europe's elite leagues, including the English Premier League, Ligue 1, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga.The profile-per-page is visually arresting, packed with incisive data, and includes stunning heat maps that show the pitch movements of each player. Get your copy now and start comparing and contrasting the achievements of the current icons in world football.
Football Legends 2024
by David BallheimerMessi may have won the World Cup in 2022 but is he reallly a better striker than Mbappé? Which midfielder creates more chances for his side – City's De Bruyne or Barca's Pedri? Who's the best penalty saver – Alisson or Neuer? While every fan has their opinion, back yours up with the latest stats featured in Football Legends 2024 and show them who's the best football pundit!Showcasing the top 100 stars in the modern game, Football Legends 2024 offers the latest facts and stats of players in every position who play in Europe's elite leagues.With a star profile on each page, this visually arresting almanac is packed with incisive data and includes stunning heat maps that show the pitch movements of every player featured. Get your copy now and start comparing the goals, assists, saves, freekicks (and a host of other data) of the current icons in world football.
Football Management
by Sue BridgewaterFootball Managers have to deal with a number of unique pressures: this is an extremely turbulent profession, it is results oriented, their actions are carried out in the full glare of the media spotlight. Yet in many of its dimensions, the challenges of the football manager role strike chords with those of talent managers in many other sectors. How should they get the best out of players with different strengths, how do you achieve the best recruitment, development, retention of these staff and when do you decide against trying to stop them from leaving? How do you motivate those who are not in your starting line up? What is your role as leader in this type of situation, how do you think longer term when the pressures are all judged by short-term measures? What if you are made a scapegoat for the failings of the broader organisation? The football analogy is a widely understood and many of these issues can be discussed in terms of football management in ways which are more easily digested than through examples from many other sectors. This book will satisfy the interest in football management and in talent management and leadership using thought provoking material and examples which allow us to look at our daily challenges through a different lens.
Football My Arse!
by Ricky TomlinsonA collection of hilarious anecdotes about football - from stories about the stars themselves, to the fans, the girlfriends, the managers... in fact every aspect of the beautiful - and occasionally ridiculous - game.
Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association #25)
by Alan McDougall Rebeccah Dawson, Bastian Heinsohn, Oliver KnabeOver the past century, the impact of football on Germany has been manifold, influencing the arts, political debates, and even contributing to the construction of cultural memories and national narratives. Football Nation analyses the game’s fluid role in shaping and reflecting German society, and spans its focus on modern German history, from the Wilhelmine era to the early 21st century. Expounding on topics of gender, class, fandom, spectatorship, antisemitism, nationalism, and internationalism, a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars offer a novel approach to understanding the many influences of football throughout its extensive history which until recently has only been available to a German-speaking readership.
Football Nightmare
by Matt Christopher Robert HirschfeldThe game-winning, undefeated-record-making pass would have made Kevin a hero instead of a loser. Now, a year later, that missed pass still haunts him, so much so that he's considering quitting football for good. His friends and family finally convince him to stick with it, but Keith's troubles are far from over. Another player is out for his position and seems determined to do everything he can to keep the dropped pass memory alive in the minds of the whole team - including Keith. Can Keith overcome his own obsession with the past and succeed in the present?
Football Nightmare (Matt Christopher Sports Series)
by Matt ChristopherKeith Stedman dropped the game-winning, undefeated-record-making pass that would have made him a hero instead of a loser. Still haunted by his gaffe, he's considering quitting football for good. His friends and family convince him to stick with it, but his troubles are far from over. Another player seems determined to do everything he can to keep the bad memory alive in the minds of his teammates-including Keith. Can Keith overcome his own obsession with the past and succeed in the present?
Football Physics: The Science of the Game
by Timothy GayYou'll never view a football game in quite the same way again--the ultimate guide for the millions of impassioned fans who have turned football into America's most watched sportWhat effect does altitude have on the flight of a kicked ball? How do Newton's laws of motion apply to blocking and tackling? What does the science of physics reveal to us about the optimal chase strategies for defensive backs? In this illuminating , enormously entertaining book, a physics professor with a rare gift for making science easy to understand-and fun-for the lay reader reveals the unseen natural laws that govern football. And in so doing, Dr. Timothy Gay broadens and deepens our appreciation for the strategic nuances of this deceptively simple game.The success of such well received titles as The Physics of Baseball and The Physics of Golf has already demonstrated fans' fascination with the science underlying their favorite sport. But never before have basic physical principles been explained so clearly for sports fans with no scientific background. Readers will relive the game's enthralling moments and legendary feats-Franco Harris's Immaculate Reception, Joe Montana's scrambling pass for The Catch, Dick Butkus's bone-crunching, game-saving tackles, and many more-as they gain new insight into the dynamics of blocking and tackling, open field running, kicking, passing, the line of scrimmage, and the role played by equipment, turf, and the decibels of sound in stadiums. Illustrated with classic black-and-white NFL action photos along with engaging popular-science diagrams, the book is an outgrowth of Dr. Gay's playful, brilliant lectures on the physics of football that have been adapted by the NFL for videos shown on the TV show Blast! which airs in 190 foreign countries.
Football Revolution: The Rise of the Spread Offense and How It Transformed College Football
by Bart WrightFor the last twenty-five years, the most dominant offensive strategy in college football has been the spread offense, which relies on empty backfields, lots of receivers and passing, and no huddles between plays. Where the spread offense started, why it took so long to take hold, and the evolution of its many variations are the much-debated mysteries that Bart Wright sets about solving in this book.Football Revolution recovers a key, overlooked, part of the story. The book reveals how Jack Neumeier, a high school football coach in California in the 1970s, built an offensive strategy around a young player named John Elway, whose father was a coach at nearby California State University, Northridge. One of the elder Elway&’s assistant coaches, Dennis Erickson, then borrowed Neumeier&’s innovations and built on them, bringing what we now know as the spread offense onto the national stage at the University of Miami in the 1980s. With Erickson&’s career as a lens, this book shows how the inspiration of a high school coach became the dominant offense in college football, prepping a whole generation of quarterbacks for the NFL and forever changing the way the game is played.
Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies
by John Czarnecki Howie LongTackle football basics in a day? Easy.If you've ever wanted to know the difference between a touchdown and a touchback, or how a running back's role differs from a linebacker's, this handy guide gets you up-to-speed in no time.Football Rules & Positions In A Day For Dummies gives you a focused guide to the rules, regulations, and player roles of one of the most popular American sports.The essential information you need to understand and enjoy America's greatest gameExpert coverage of the game's rules and regulationsHelpful breakdowns of football positions and their roles in offense, defense, and special teamsOnline component takes you beyond the book with bonus content and featuresGet set to impress your friends with your newfound knowledge in no time!
Football Society & The Law
by David McardleThis text provides a new dimension to the exciting and rapidly expanding field of sport and the law. David McArdle contemplates laws influence over the development of football between the founding of the English Football League in 1888 and the European Court of Justices seminal ruling in the Bosman case over a century later. From Boot Money to Bosman provides insights into how the law on violence and consent impacts upon acts of on-field violence,the courts role in securing players a greater degree of contractual freedom and the football governing bodies responses to player power. It also looks at the games, and the legislatures, attempts to prevent hooliganism and racism and considers the impact of the move towards all-seater stadia in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster. The book provides information on how race and sex discrimination law impact upon footballs employment practices, explains why the sports governing bodies are immune to public law remedies such as judicial review (but are possibly not immune the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998) and exhorts footballs governing bodies to take the lead in participant protection initiatives. Lucid and thought-provoking, this book will be required reading for sports studies students and particularly those who are concerned with football and the law. It will also appeal to people working within the football industry and others who wish to understand how the law has influenced, and will continue to influence, the development of football.
Football Stories: Football Stories: Messi
by Simon MugfordIn Football Stories: Messi, young readers will find out how Lionel Messi went from being the smallest player on the field to being known as the 'Greatest of All Time' with his incredible runs, ball control and lots and lots of goals! With simple text and engaging art, this fully illustrated picture book is the ideal first read for little football fans. They'll love the story of Messi's triumph, especially when they learn that once he was just a football-loving kid just like them.
Football Stories: Ronaldo
by Simon MugfordIs Cristiano Ronaldo your ultimate football hero? In this brilliant non-fiction picture book, young readers can discover how this amazing player went from kicking bottles in the streets of Madeira to becoming a football superstar at Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus.Featuring fantastic full-colour illustrations based on the best-selling Football Superstars series, this fun, easy-to-read story of Ronaldo's rise to glory is the ideal first football book for all young Ronaldo fans.
Football Super 8
by Ashley CollieChildren's biographies of 8 superstar football players: Kurt Warner, Randy Moss, Drew Bledsoe, Steve McNair, Junior Seau, Troy Aikman, Eddie George, and Marshall Faulk.
Football Superstar Aaron Rodgers (Bumba Books ® -- Sports Superstars Ser.)
by Jon M FishmanAaron Rodgers is the star quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. With carefully leveled text and vibrant photos, this title will appeal to young football fans.
Football Superstar Tom Brady (Bumba Books ® -- Sports Superstars Ser.)
by Jon M FishmanNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has won the Super Bowl five times. Young football fans will love this sports biography with carefully leveled text, exciting photos, and critical thinking questions.
Football Trafficking: A Legal Analysis of the Trade of African Minors
by Ini-Obong NkangThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe. It delves into the broader context of human trafficking, examining relevant international laws and their application to football. Through critical analysis of FIFA’s regulatory framework, the book questions the effectiveness of the organisation’s current anti-trafficking policies and proposes actionable solutions for reform. By integrating theoretical insights with practical recommendations, the book outlines strategies such as Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) programmes and child-centred approaches to protect vulnerable young athletes and address some of the core factors that drive the occurrence of the crime.This book is an essential resource for scholars, policymakers, legal professionals, and stakeholders in the sports industry. It offers valuable insights into the complex interplay between sports, law, and human rights, making it particularly relevant for those interested in sports law, international law, and human trafficking prevention. Readers will benefit from the book’s in-depth exploration of the regulatory challenges at play and the array of proposed remedies, giving readers a deeper understanding of how to create a safer and more ethical environment for the at-risk youths involved in football globally.
Football Traumatology
by Piero VolpiThis book provides a comprehensive guide to the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries commonly experienced by football (soccer) players. It will be of particular value for orthopedists and sports medicine practitioners, and will provide the information required by trainers and medical staff regarding the traumatic lesions associated with the sport. It is also anticipated that the book will assist in reducing the risk of trauma in footballers. The new edition has been revised to reflect advances in knowledge and practice and will be more valuable than ever, given that the risk of trauma continues to increase owing to the intensity and speed of modern football, the current training methods, and technical and tactical innovations. Injuries are a major adverse event during a footballer's career, and they require appropriate medical and/or surgical treatment and rehabilitation. The overviews provided in this book will help in delivering such care.
Football Uncyclopedia
by Michael Kun Adam HoffWith a blend of statistical analysis, opinion, love for the game, and a healthy dash of humor, authors Michael Kun and Adam Hoff challenge the myths and beliefs that have long afflicted football. No subject is off limits. The greatness of the 1972 Miami Dolphins? Skewered. America's Team? Put in its place. Pittsburgh's Berkowitz Fish Sandwich? Praised, obviously. Joe Namath? Well, he gets a little bit of everything. The Football Uncyclopedia gives equal time to owners and champions, stadiums and cities. It rushes to the defense of everyone from Shaun Alexander to Kurt Warner and of everything from the Heisman Trophy to Randall Cunningham's marble business. It focuses on player legacies, NFL history, and hot-button issues, but it also delves into topics like celebrity misbehavior, on-air kisses, and the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Football Uncyclopedia covers the names, the nuances, and everything in between that make football an enduring American phenomenon.
Football War: The VFA and VFL's Battle for Supremacy 1930-1949
by Xavier FowlerIn the shadow of the impending Second World War, a battle for control kicked off between two rival factions in Australian Rules football-the powerful upstart Victorian Football League, comprising the strongest inner-city clubs, and the struggling Victorian Football Association, which sought new teams and spectators in Melbourne's growing outer suburbs. The conflict spilled out of Victoria, inciting division and discord in almost every corner of the country. Woven through Xavier Fowler's lively history are the stories of iconic players whose lives and careers were fundamentally altered by the conflict as they crisscrossed the breach, including Australian Football Hall of Famers Ron Todd, Laurie Nash, Jack Dyer and Bob Pratt. From bitter personal rivalries to the lasting impacts on the game itself, The Football War is the untold story of the battle for supremacy on- and off-field, and the fight for the soul of Australian Rules.
Football Wit: Quips and Quotes for the Football Fanatic (Wit Ser.)
by Aubrey MaloneWhen you’re finished explaining the offside rule, shouting at the ref and perfecting your ball skills, treat yourself to a hearty half-time chuckle with this premiere collection of footy wise-cracks. No matter if your team win, lose or draw, Football Wit will keep you smiling through all the own goals and red cards that come your way.
Football Wit: Quips and Quotes for the Football Fanatic (Wit Ser.)
by Aubrey MaloneWhen you’re finished explaining the offside rule, shouting at the ref and perfecting your ball skills, treat yourself to a hearty half-time chuckle with this premiere collection of footy wise-cracks. No matter if your team win, lose or draw, Football Wit will keep you smiling through all the own goals and red cards that come your way.
Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)
by Steve RedheadIn Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of ‘the people’s game’. Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of disciplines, examining fascinating topics such as the relationship between music and football; hooligans and ultras; the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements; and ultra-realist criminology. Football and Accelerated Culture offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies. As such, it is important reading for anybody with an interest in the culture of sport and leisure, social theory, communication studies, criminology or socio-legal studies.
Football and American Identity (Contemporary Sports Issues Ser.)
by Frank Hoffmann Martin J Manning Gerhard FalkLearn the value of football to American societyNo sport reflects the American value system like football. Visitors to the United States need only watch a game or two to learn all they need to know about the American way of life and the beliefs, attitudes, and concerns of American society. Football and American Identity examines the social conditions and cultural implications found in the football subculture, represented by core values such as competition, conflict, diversity, power, economic success, fair play, liberty, and patriotism. This unique book goes beyond the standard fare on football strategy and history, or the biographies of famous players and coaches, to analyze the reasons why the game is the essence of the American spirit. Author Gerhard Falk, Professor of Sociology at the State University College of New York at Buffalo, examines football as a game, as a business, and as a reflection of the diversity in American life. Football and American Identity also addresses the relationship between football and the media, with much of the game&’s income generated by advertising and endorsements, and examines the presence of crime in football culture. The book discusses the development of the game-and those involved in it-at the Pop Warner, college, and professional levels, examining the social origin of players, coaches, cheerleaders, and owners. In addition, Football and American Identity analyzes the game&’s fans and their devotion to "their" teams, examines why Pennsylvania is considered the "mother" of American football, and looks at the National Football League and its commissioners. Football and American Identity examines: how individualism and achievement can lead to mythological status why a person&’s occupation is the most important indicator of prestige in the United States what the consequences are of earning more in a year than most Americans make in a lifetime why equality is vital to the ethnic make-up of American football teams why teamwork is important-in football and in industry how freedom is essential for taking the risks necessary for success and much more!Football and American Identity is an inside look at football as an American cultural phenomenon. Devoted and casual fans of the game, as well as academics working in sociology, will find this unique book interesting, entertaining, and thought-provoking.