28 must-read nonfiction books like Mastering the Premier League: The Tactical Concepts Behind Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City by Lee Scott

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Mastering the Premier League: The Tactical Concepts Behind Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City

By: Lee Scott

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Discover the secrets of the game model developed by Pep Guardiola that sets Manchester City apart f…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Mastering the Premier League: The Tactical Concepts Behind Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City by Lee Scott , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

By: Phil Knight

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight share… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
"We must all be professors of the jungle."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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2. 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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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
"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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3. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover

4. Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

By: Tim S. Grover

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Paperback

For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats--Michael Jordan, Kobe … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction

5. Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

By: Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Ancelotti is Europe's greatest manager -- Paul Hayward Telegraph He's a great coach and an amazing … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football

6. Pep Guardiola: The Evolution

By: None , Martí Perarnau

3.69

Format: 88 pages,

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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7. Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

By: Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Audio CD

During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson w… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Bottom Corner: A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football by Nige Tassell

8. The Bottom Corner: A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football

By: Nige Tassell

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Everyone loves an FA Cup upset: a smug Premier League team being knocked out by plucky underdogs. I… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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9. 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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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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10. Moneyball

By: Michael Lewis

4.26

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

11. The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong

By: Chris Anderson , David Sally

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Moneyballmeets Freakonomicsin this myth-busting guide to understanding--and winning--the most popul… read more

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12. Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich

By: None

3.29

Format: None pages,

Marti Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14. This book represents … read more

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13. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

14. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

By: Michael Cox

3.88

Format: 496 pages,

An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League… read more

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15. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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16. My Life in Red and White

By: Arsène Wenger

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For the very first time, world-renowned and revolutionary football manager Arsène Wenger tells his … read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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17. Surviving to Drive

By: Guenther Steiner

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"

-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive

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18. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football

By: Michael Cox

4.37

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever by Rory Smith

19. 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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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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20. 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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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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21. Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

By: Christoph Biermann

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Well written and thoughtful. Takes us on a tour of some of Europe's most innovative football thinke… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins

22. We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

By: Eliot Higgins

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The page-turning inside account of the organization solving international mysteries and wielding th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports by Yaron Weitzman

23. Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports

By: Yaron Weitzman

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process -- a bold plan to get to first by becoming the… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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24. The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

By: Kobe Bryant

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant has decid… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
"You have to work hard in the dark to shine in the light"

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"If you want to be a better player, you have to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"If you really want to be great at something you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

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25. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

4.39

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch by Tifo - The Athletic

26. How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch

By: Tifo - The Athletic

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'I love Tifo' Ian Wright 'Tifo are great' Alan Shearer 'Tifo have changed the game when it comes to… read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of What It Takes: The Inspiring Journey of Sarina Wiegman and the Lionesses’ Rise to Success by Sarina Wiegman

27. What It Takes: The Inspiring Journey of Sarina Wiegman and the Lionesses’ Rise to Success

By: Sarina Wiegman

3.68

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Winning strategies of one of football’s most successful coachesAs FIFA's most decorated female foot… read more

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

28. 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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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Rapture: Fifteen Teams, Four Countries, One NBA Championship, and How to Find a Way to Win Damn Near Anywhere by Nick Nurse

29. Rapture: Fifteen Teams, Four Countries, One NBA Championship, and How to Find a Way to Win Damn Near Anywhere

By: Nick Nurse

4.17

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Foreword by Phil Jackson Nick Nurse distills the wisdom, insight, and experiences that helped him l… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Pep's City: The Making of a Superteam by Pol Ballús

30. Pep's City: The Making of a Superteam

By: Pol Ballús

4.04

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Over three seasons in England, Pep Guardiola has built something the Premier League has never seen … read more

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  • soccer
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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31. Mastering the Premier League: The Tactical Concepts Behind Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City

By: Lee Scott

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Discover the secrets of the game model developed by Pep Guardiola that sets Manchester City apart f… read more

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  • football

23 Best sports books like Mastering the Premier League: The Tactical Concepts Behind Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City by Lee Scott

Transform Your Habits

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

Tim S. Grover

4.26

Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

Carlo Ancelotti

0.00

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23 Top nonfiction books like How To Watch Football: 52 Rules for Understanding the Beautiful Game, On and Off the Pitch by Tifo - The Athletic

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

Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography

Guillem Balagué

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Back From the Brink: The Autobiography

None , Paul McGrath

3.73

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