13 must-read audiobook books like Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game by Joshua Robinson

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Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game

By: Joshua Robinson

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Essential World Cup Reading Featured in The New York Times' 'What to Read During the World Cup' …

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1. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By: Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Soccer fans love to argue about the tactics a manager puts into play, and this fascinating study tr… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse."

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

"كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا،…"

-Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

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2. Messi

By: Guillem Balagué

4.67

Format: 48 pages,

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3. How Soccer Explains the World

By: Franklin Foer

3.81

Format: 4 pages,

Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. In fact, it's a perfect window into the cro… read more

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  • soccer
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4. The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America

By: Grant Wahl

3.93

Format: None pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
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5. Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina

By: Jonathan Wilson

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi ... Argentina i… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
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  • football
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6. Soccernomics

By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper

4.67

Format: 88 pages,

Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
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7. Moments

By: Cristiano Ronaldo

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cristiano Ronaldo is the world famous Manchester United and Portuguese International footballer, ad… read more

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Cover of Cristiano Ronaldo: The Biography by Guillem Balagué

8. Cristiano Ronaldo: The Biography

By: Guillem Balagué

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers of all time, yet for all his success on the pi… read more

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  • soccer
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  • football
  • sports

9. Ronaldo: The Obsession for Perfection

By: Luca Caioli

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Cristiano Ronaldo transferred to Real Madrid for a world record-shattering PS80 million in 200… read more

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10. Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography

By: Alex Ferguson

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The celebratory, revealing, inspiring, and entertaining autobiography of the greatest manager in th… read more

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11. Pelé: The Autobiography

By: Pelé

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players univer… read more

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12. Messi: The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend

By: Luca Caioli

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Lionel Messi is widely regarded as the greatest soccer player in the world. Sports journalist and b… read more

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13. Messi: A Biography

By: Leonardo Faccio

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

For soccer enthusiasts and sports fans in general, an in-depth look at the life of the beautiful ga… read more

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14. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

By: Jack McCallum

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

They were the Beatles of basketball, the MercurySeven in sneakers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports … read more

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15. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

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16. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker

4.39

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
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17. Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever

By: Rory Smith

3.84

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs … read more

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  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club by Simon Kuper

18. The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

By: Simon Kuper

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times j… read more

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  • history
  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story by Raphael Honigstein

19. Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story

By: Raphael Honigstein

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

JüKlopp's coaching career began in the German second tier at the unfashionable club of FSV Mainz 0… read more

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  • biography
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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
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  • audiobook
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20. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

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  • history
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21. Barkley: A Biography

By: Timothy Bella

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

* A Good Morning America Buzz Book* *A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022* The definitive biogra… read more

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  • biography
  • biography memoir
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson

22. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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23. LeBron

By: Jeff Benedict

4.40

Format: None pages, Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods—the “defi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire by John Eisenberg

24. The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire

By: John Eisenberg

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and bu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • football
  • sports
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution by Ryan O'Hanlon

25. Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution

By: Ryan O'Hanlon

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding aroun… read more

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  • football
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  • audiobook
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26. Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game

By: Joshua Robinson

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Essential World Cup Reading Featured in The New York Times' 'What to Read During the World Cup' … read more

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27. Neymar, Ronaldo, Messi

By: Luca Caioli

4.40

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Praise for Luca Caioli's Messi : "Very thorough, with author Luca Caioli racking up the air miles i… read more

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  • football
Cover of Cristiano Ronaldo: Champion of the World by Tom Oldfield

28. Cristiano Ronaldo: Champion of the World

By: Tom Oldfield

4.52

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Already a star at the youth level on his home island of Madeira and earning a big move to Sporting … read more

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Cover of Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game by Grant Wahl

29. Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game

By: Grant Wahl

3.87

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

How do some of soccer’s smartest and most accomplished figures master the craft of the game? This i… read more

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Cover of Ronaldo: Rise Of The Legend. The incredible story of one of the best soccer players in the world. by Roy Brandon

30. Ronaldo: Rise Of The Legend. The incredible story of one of the best soccer players in the world.

By: Roy Brandon

4.38

Format: 78 pages, Kindle Edition

“I´m living a dream I never want to wake up from.” – Cristiano Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo is the mod… read more

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Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

31. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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12 best-selling history books like Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game by Joshua Robinson

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

How Soccer Explains the World

Franklin Foer

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Beckham Experiment: How the World's Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America

Grant Wahl

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina

Jonathan Wilson

3.64

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19 must-read audiobook books like Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game by Grant Wahl

Transform Your Habits

My Turn: The Autobiography

Johan Cruyff

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Revolution: The Rise of Arteta’s Arsenal

Charles Watts

4.05

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