19 best-selling nonfiction books like Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia by Chris Etchingham

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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 …

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1. Fear and Loathing in La Liga

By: Sid Lowe

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in La Liga is the definitive history of the greatest rivalry in world sport: FC B… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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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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  • 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. Cocaine Nights

By: J.G. Ballard

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In the resort of Estrella de Mar, Charles Prentice has just arrived from London to save his brother… read more

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4. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By: Kapka Kassabova

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

"Remarkable: a book about borders that makes the reader feel sumptuously free." --Peter Pomerantsev… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life

By: Alex Bellos , None

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Brazilian football team at its best exudes a skill, flamboyance and romantic pull. Football is … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football

6. Sycamore Row

By: John Grisham

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from … read more

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7. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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8. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

By: John Preston

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

By: Tom Burgis

3.80

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year • An Economist Book of the Year “A must-read for anyo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past."

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"It was to Blair that Nazarbayev turned for counsel at this delicate moment. The information blackout on Zhanaozen had been insufficient to prevent the basic details leaking out. It was as though some…"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev found that he and his regime had a certain chemistry with figures from Blair’s strand of Western politics: the Third Way. It was a system that purported to wed the humanity of the left to …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

"Nazarbayev had learned that Westerners could be just as adept as he was in turning money into power and power back into money. Some, like Dick Evans and Jonathan Aitken, went about it from positions …"

-Tom Burgis, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World

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10. When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

By: Jon Henderson

3.80

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2019 Long before perma-tanned football agents and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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11. 1312: Among the Ultras, A journey with the world's most extreme fans

By: James Montague

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can see us, but you don't know us. Ultras are football fans like no others. Fiercely loyal, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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12. Data Game: The Story of Liverpool FC's Analytics Revolution

By: Josh Williams

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Data Game: The Story of Liverpool FC's Analytics Revolution explores the lesser-known story of how … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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13. Narcoball: Love, Death and Football in Escobar's Colombia

By: David Arrowsmith

4.47

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Pablo Escobar had one obsession. Not drugs, not money, not power... football.Narcoball uncovers the… read more

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Cover of Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places by Adam  Fletcher

14. Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places

By: Adam Fletcher

3.84

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

How much would you risk to change your life? After Spiegel bestselling author Adam Fletcher is … read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Welcome to Hell?: In Search of the Real Turkish Football

By: John McManus

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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16. CLOUGH THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (REI)

By: Brian Clough John Sadler

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Autobiography [ The Autobiography by Clough, Brian ( Author ) Paperback Nov- 1995 ] Paperback… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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17. Va-Va-Voom: The Modern History of French Football

By: Tom Williams

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The players, the teams, the goals, the games, the scandals, the gloom and the glory: the story of F… read more

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  • football
Cover of We Play On: Shakhtar Donetsk’s Fight for Ukraine, Football and Freedom by Andy Brassell

18. We Play On: Shakhtar Donetsk’s Fight for Ukraine, Football and Freedom

By: Andy Brassell

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'A gripping account' Sunday Times 'We want to show to the world that we are alive. That we are str… read more

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19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • football
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20. 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
Cover of La partita. Il romanzo di Italia-Brasile by Piero Trellini

21. La partita. Il romanzo di Italia-Brasile

By: Piero Trellini

4.27

Format: 682 pages, Kindle Edition

Nel pomeriggio più caldo del secolo si incrociano i destini di un arbitro scampato all'Olocausto, u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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22. 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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  • football
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23. How to Win the Premier League: The Sunday Times Bestselling Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution

By: Ian Graham

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

'The best book on football I have ever read' Daniel Finkelstein'Deserves a place among the great mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
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24. A Season on the Med: Football Where the Sun Always Shines

By: Alex Wade

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Season on the Med: Riviera Football in Italy and France (With a Trip to Athens for Stan) is a sto… read more

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  • football
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25. Jurgen Said to Me: Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool and the Remaking of a City

By: Dan Morgan

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jürgen Said to Me is a human-interest story centred around Liverpool FC's most successful and chari… read more

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26. Blood on the Crossbar: The Dictatorship's World Cup

By: Rhys Richards

4.15

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Blood on the The Dictatorship's World Cup is the story of the most controversial football World Cu… read more

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  • football
Cover of Grobar: Partizan Pleasure, Pain and Paranoia: Lifting the Lid on Serbia's Undertakers by James Moor

27. Grobar: Partizan Pleasure, Pain and Paranoia: Lifting the Lid on Serbia's Undertakers

By: James Moor

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An Arsenal fan is forced to ditch his first love and switch allegiances to a new team. Handed a For… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania by Phil Harrison

28. Inside the Hermit Kingdom: Football Stories from Stalinist Albania

By: Phil Harrison

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Inside the Hermit Kingdom charts the history of Albanian football from 1945 to 1991, when the count… read more

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Cover of Thai Football Tales: A Beautiful Madness by Matt Riley

29. Thai Football Tales: A Beautiful Madness

By: Matt Riley

3.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Matt Riley takes us on a fascinating and bizarre behind-the-scenes journey into the weird and wonde… read more

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30. The Boy in Brazil

By: Seth Burkett

4.00

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

When Seth Burkett travelled to Brazil for a youth tournament with this local team Stamford, he was … read more

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Cover of Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture by Neil Atkinson

31. Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture

By: Neil Atkinson

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

'Does anyone in this room think that I can do wonders? I’m a normal guy from the Black Forest . . .… read more

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  • football

20 Top football books like Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia by Chris Etchingham

Transform Your Habits

Fear and Loathing in La Liga

Sid Lowe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life

Alex Bellos , None

4.82

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When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

Jon Henderson

3.80

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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

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Rory Carroll

4.38

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