From Beckham to Maradona, soccer fans are often as interested in what their favorite players get up to off the pitch as on. After countless interviews and detailed research, Maarten Bax reveals for the first time the complete stories behind the most famous bad boys in the world of soccer.
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Dutch sports journalist Maarten Bax is a specialist in the field of transgressive behavior in sports, and author of various bestselling books. His first book was the (authorized) biography of the Dutch twin brothers Frank and Ronald de Boer. It received a lot of publicity. After his biography of a hooligan the first ever in Dutch history he wrote a book triggered by the violent death of linesman in soccer, Richard Nieuwenhuizen. In 2014 Bax also published the authorized biography of the most debated sportsmen in the Netherlands, world champion kickboxing Badr Hari. Fascinated by the bad behavior of top international soccer players, Bax wrote Sex, Drugs and Soccer’. As a journalist he had access to these top players. Interestingly, he discovered that they often have the same reasons for their questionable behavior, whether it was ultra right-wing political engagement, being overly aggressive or adulterous. Maarten Bax has been a presenter of numerous sports programs for years, and has lived in Spain, Brazil and America.
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