12 Top football books like Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team by Robbie Dunne

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Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team

By: Robbie Dunne

3.67

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Working Class Heroes is much more than the story of a football club. This is the tale of a working-…

If you liked the football plot in Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team by Robbie Dunne , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Soccer in Sun and Shadow

By: Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Discussing everything from the leveling of the Twin Towers to the death of the sole survivor of tha… read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
"و كان لدى الرب وقت ليهتم بشئون كرة القدم، فكم من مسئوليها سيبقون أحياءً"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

"¿En qué se parece el fútbol a Dios? En la devoción que le tienen muchos creyentes y en la desconfianza que le tienen muchos intelectuales"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

"[Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman…"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

"Han pasado los años, y a la larga he terminado por asumir mi identidad: yo no soy más que un mendigo de buen fútbol. Voy por el mundo sombrero en mano, y en los estadios suplico: una linda jugadita, …"

-Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

2. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more

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3. Morbo: The story of spanish football

By: Phil Ball

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

English writer Phil Ball has put the history of Spanish football into the context of the epomymous … read more

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4. 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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5. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

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"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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6. The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)

By: Lee Child

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One m… read more

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"Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds."

-Lee Child, The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)

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7. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. 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
  • nonfiction
  • football
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9. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

By: Dipo Faloyin

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football

By: Tobias Jones

4.01

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

Italy's ultras are the most organised and violent fans in European football. Many groups have evolv… read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
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11. Lady Joker, Volume One

By: Kaoru Takamura

3.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

One of Japan’s great modern masters, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with this two… read more

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12. The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism

By: Chris Lee

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism uncovers the role that footballers and fans have… read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
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13. A Season in the Sun: The Inside Story of Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Making of a Champion

By: Lars Anderson

4.08

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

An unprecedented inside look at the Tampa Bay Bucs’ Super Bowl-winning season, written with the par… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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14. The Immortals: The Season My Milan Team Reinvented Football

By: Arrigo Sacchi

4.15

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

When Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan destroyed Steaua Bucharest 4-0 in the 1989 European Cup final, everythin… read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
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15. Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao

By: Christopher James Evans

4.69

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Los Leones: The Unique Story of Athletic Club Bilbao is the first English language book that tells… read more

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  • football
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16. St. Pauli

By: Carles Viñas

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

En los años ochenta, gracias a los jóvenes vinculados al movimiento autónomo, al punk y al fenómeno… read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
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17. Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team

By: Robbie Dunne

3.67

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Working Class Heroes is much more than the story of a football club. This is the tale of a working-… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Dunne's Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team book and Robbie Dunne's Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team

  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
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18. Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia

By: Chris Etchingham

3.97

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

In 1987, a Zvonimir Boban-inspired Yugoslavia won the World Under-20 Championships in Chile, and a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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19. The Unstoppable Keeper

By: Lutz Pfannenstiel

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of German goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel ― the most interesting footballer you'v… read more

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  • soccer
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Hijacking Laliga: How Atletico Madrid Broke Barcelona and Real Madrid's Duopoly on Spanish Football by Euan McTear

20. Hijacking Laliga: How Atletico Madrid Broke Barcelona and Real Madrid's Duopoly on Spanish Football

By: Euan McTear

3.74

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Hijacking La How Atlético Madrid Broke Barcelona and Real Madrid's Duopoly looks at what went on b… read more

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21. Eibar the Brave: The Extraordinary Rise of La Liga's Smallest Team

By: Euan McTear

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Sociedad Deportiva Eibar is the Basque side from a passionate soccer town one-third the size of the… read more

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12 Best nonfiction books like Working Class Heroes: The Story of Rayo Vallecano, Madrid's Forgotten Team by Robbie Dunne

Transform Your Habits

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Eduardo Galeano , Mark Fried

4.20

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever

Rory Smith

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

Dipo Faloyin

4.43

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Jack in the Green (Hunt for Reacher, #5)

Diane Capri

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

John Sandford

4.36

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