These central figures share the little details that matter, position by position: • Attacking midfielder Christian Pulisic explains why he wears his soccer cleats a size too small to make his first touch even better. • Forward Javier ...

Author: Grant Wahl

Publisher: Crown Archetype

ISBN: 9780804137065

Category: Sports & Recreation

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In Masters of Modern Soccer, Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl asks: How do some of the game's smartest figures master the craft of soccer? By profiling players in every key position (American phenomenon Christian Pulisic, Mexican superstar Javier "Chicharito" Hernández, Belgium's Vincent Kompany, Spain's Xabi Alonso, Germany's Manuel Neuer) and management (Belgium coach Roberto Martínez and Borussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc), Wahl reveals how elite players and coaches strategize on and off the field and execute in high pressure game situations. Masters of Modern Soccer is the definitive thinking fan's guide to modern soccer. For a supporter of any team, from the U.S. national teams to Manchester United, or any competition, from Mexico's Liga MX to the World Cup, this book reveals what players and managers are thinking before, during, and after games and delivers a true behind-the-scenes perspective on the inner workings of the sport's brightest minds. America's premier soccer journalist, Grant Wahl, follows world-class players from across the globe examining how they do their jobs. This access imbues Masters of Modern Soccer with deep insight from the players on how goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, and forwards function individually and as a unit to excel and win. Wahl also shadows a manager and director of soccer as they juggle the challenges of coaching, preparation, and the short- and long-term strategies of how to identify and acquire talent and deploy it on the field. A book that will stand the test of time, Masters of Modern Soccer is the most in-depth analysis of the craft of soccer ever written for the American fan. For any fan, player, coach, or sideline enthusiast, this book will change the way they watch the game.

the “natural” sounds of the game over the roars of the crowd. Fans cheering is part of the game. ... 1Grant Wahl, Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game (New York: Crown, 2018), 33.

Author: Mark Yakich

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781501367083

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 160

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the “beautiful game” at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world's most popular sport-from top-tier professionals to children just learning the game. As an American who began playing football in the 1970s as it gained a foothold in the States, Mark Yakich reflects on his own experiences alongside the sport's social and political implications, its narrative and documentary depictions, and its linguistic idiosyncrasies. Illustrating how football can be at once absolutely vital and "only a game," this book will be surprising and insightful for the casual and diehard fan alike. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

... Epic Season That Wouldn't End Michael MacCambridge, Neil Atkinson. About Grant Wahl Grant Wahl is a leading soccer journalist and bestselling author of Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First- Century Game.

Author: Michael MacCambridge

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 9781496230218

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 472

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Red Letters is the story of Liverpool FC's first title-winning season in thirty years, game by game, in real time, with hopes and expectations tested and altered as the season progresses--through insights from two avid Liverpool supporters.

Nicklaus continued his remarkable play, winning the Masters Tournament in 1965 and 1966, the first player ever to win back-to-back ... Then, in February 1970, his father died, and Nicklaus's attitude toward the game seemed to change.

Author: Steven A. Riess

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317459477

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 1200

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Provides practical help for the day-to-day concerns that keep managers awake at night. This book aims to fill the gap between the legal and policy issues that are the mainstay of human resources and supervision courses and the real-world needs of managers as they attempt to cope with the human side of their jobs.

In Switching Fields, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann turns his investigative focus on the system that develops male soccer players in the United States, examining why the country has struggled for decades to produce ...

Author: George Dohrmann

Publisher: Ballantine Books

ISBN: 9781524798871

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 209

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men’s soccer players for so long—and shows why a golden era just might be coming. “George Dohrmann is one of our most perceptive chroniclers of youth sports in the United States, and here he brings his keen eye to the history and present of U.S. men’s soccer development.”—Grant Wahl, CBS Sports analyst and New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Modern Soccer The contrast is striking. As the United States Women’s National soccer team has long dominated the sport—winners of four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals—the men’s team has floundered. They failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and three consecutive Olympics, and have long struggled when facing the world’s best teams. How could a country so dominant in other men’s team sports—and such a global powerhouse in women’s soccer—be so far behind the rest of the world in men’s soccer? In Switching Fields, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Dohrmann turns his investigative focus on the system that develops male soccer players in the United States, examining why the country has struggled for decades to produce first-class talent. But rather than just focus on the past, he looks forward, connecting with coaches and players who are changing the way talented prospects are unearthed and developed: an American living in Japan who devised a new way for kids under five to be introduced to the game; a coach in Los Angeles who traveled to Spain and Argentina and returned with coaching methods that he used to school a team of future pros; a startup in San Francisco that has increased access for Latino players; an Arizona real estate developer whose grand experiment changed the way pro teams in the United States nurture talent. Following these innovators’ inspiring journeys, Dohrmann gives ever-hopeful U.S. soccer fans a reason to believe that a movement is underway to smash the developmental status quo—one that has put the United States on the verge of greatness.

Less an autobiography than an analysis of modern superficial celebrity status in an era when people are more ... Garland, Jon, Dominic Malcolm and Michael Rowe, Eds. The Future of Football: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century.

Author: Richard Witzig

Publisher: CusiBoy Publishing

ISBN: 9780977668809

Category: Soccer

Page: 514

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African soccer Zaire , Ghana and Sudan - had enjoyed a degree of investment in sport by their colonial masters which was not ... by societies which have shaken off colonial legacies and who are preparing for the twenty - first century .

Author: Stephen Wagg

Publisher: Burns & Oates

ISBN: 071851887X

Category: Sports & Recreation

Page: 230

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This volume provides a review of the social significance of one of the few common global mass cultural pursuits, Association Football. It traces the history, social context and national/nationalist role of football in the culture and mass media of countries across the globe, ranging from Europe, the USA and Canada to Asia and the Pacific. This book is part of a series - "Sports, Politics and Culture" - which provides contemporary and historical studies of sport in society.

Be- cause when you opened up your first how - to - play book , you probably read that chess is a " war game , " a form of combat - in ... The best player in the 15th century was probably the Duke of Burgundy , Charles the Bold .

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ISBN: UVA:X006174464

Category: Chess

Page: 578

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Zidane : L'étranger extroadinaire Cima world from which the illusions and currency with voters . ... the one man who Europe's best player , but the world's best playeffortlessly transcends the borders of identity er - and that's ...

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105073252012

Category: Muslims

Page: 602

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105111051632

Category: Books

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