Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the Us, Japan, Australia, Turkey - And Even Iraq - Are Destined - Softcover

Kuper, Simon

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9780007457847: Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the Us, Japan, Australia, Turkey - And Even Iraq - Are Destined

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ISBN 10: 0007457847 ISBN 13: 9780007457847

Publisher: Harpersport, 2012

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About the Author:

Simon Kuper's first book, Football Against the Enemy, won the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize and is widely acknowledged as one of football's seminal books. Simon writes a weekly sports column in the Financial Times and has previously written football columns for The Times and The Observer. Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Economics and MBA Dean at Cass Business School in London. Stefan has a global reputation and has acted as a consultant to government and to major sports organisations such as the FIA (motor sport), UEFA (football) and the ICC (cricket).

Review:

`an Arsene Wenger of a book - more thoughtful than most of its rivals and, by football standards, positively intellectual.' The Times `Soccernomics is the intellectual's guide to football, written for the layman. No matter what nation, club (or even sport, really) you support, you'll walk away from this book with an insightful new point of view that will cause you to never look at the game quite the same way again.' Bleacher Report `...the author Simon Kuper and the economist Stefan Szymanski do for soccer what "Moneyball" did for baseball.' New York Times `Every page engages, entertains and challenges the lazy assumptions that still dominate football, not merely in its punditry, but all too often in the way that clubs are run.' FourFourTwo

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