7 must-read nonfiction books like The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game by Simon Kuper

Cover of The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game by Simon Kuper

The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

By: Simon Kuper

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The great footballers and coaches are rarely glimpsed from up close. They shield themselves from th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game by Simon Kuper , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of We Should All Be Feminists by None, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1. We Should All Be Feminists

By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.40

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more

Similar categories in None's We Should All Be Feminists book and Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

  • nonfiction
"I am just as human as the man."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

2. 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

Similar categories in Carlo Ancelotti's Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches book and Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty

3. 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

Similar categories in Phil Jackson's Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success book and Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

  • sports
  • nonfiction

4. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more

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5. 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

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics book and Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

  • 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

6. 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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7. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

By: Joshua Robinson

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Robinson's The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports book and Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

"I'm not saying that we're Disney, but if you think about it, it's not that dissimilar, Berrada said. We have characters - which are players - that our fans relate to; we put on a show every three or …"

-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

Cover of Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

8. Humankind: A Hopeful History

By: Rutger Bregman

4.32

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more

Similar categories in Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History book and Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

  • nonfiction
"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

Cover of The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game by Simon Kuper

9. The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

By: Simon Kuper

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The great footballers and coaches are rarely glimpsed from up close. They shield themselves from th… read more

Similar categories in Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game book and Simon Kuper's The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football

14 Top nonfiction books like Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches by Carlo Ancelotti

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

Penso quindi gioco

Andrea Pirlo , Alessandro Alciato

3.83

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