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  • A Sports Odyssey

    My Ithaca Journal

    by Grant Farred ...
    Series series Sporting
    Grant Farred has long had a passionate connection with sports. In A Sports Odyssey, he weaves together an account of his own sports fandom that is profoundly personal and universal.As readers of his Long Distance Love know, Grant Farred has been a supporter of the English Premier League club, Liverpool Football Club, for decades. His fandom for that team launched an unexpected connection with a ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Long Distance Love

    A Passion for Football

    by Grant Farred ...
    Series series Sporting
    Grant Farred is a lifelong soccer fan. He has been rooting for one team -- Liverpool (England) Football Club -- since he was a child. Long Distance Love explains how "football" opened up the world to a young boy growing up disenfranchised in apartheid South Africa. For Farred, being a soccer fan enabled him to establish connections with events and people throughout history and from around the ... Read more

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    Barcelona are the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation and possibly the greatest of all time.This is the untold inside story of how the best and most loved football team in the world came to redefine how the game is played.We start with the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley, the game that ended the debate about whether Barcelona were the greatest team in the ... Read more

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  • Torres: El Niño

    My Story

    Fernando Torres is one of the hottest properties in world football. From local Madrid idol to Kop hero and European Championship winner, he talks here for the first time about the unique challenges faced in his two seasons in England, with candid snapshots of his early years in Spain and life in the North West on and off the field.At the age of 25, Spain’s Fernando Torres has already established ... Read more

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  • Pray

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    Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling soccer classic Fever Pitch, offers an insightful account of an extraordinary sports season. Concentrating on a number of significant games in British soccer during the 2011–2012 season, Hornby chronicles the emotional, political, and societal highlights and woes that played out on the field. There were alleged racist clashes, revealing the deep cultural ... Read more

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  • Maradona

    The Hand of God

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    'The definitive work on Diego Maradona' The 42'One of football's greatest stories ... this is the best football book in ages' Goal'A modern footballing classic' FHM_________________________Anyone doubting that Diego Maradona was more than just a football player had only to witness the outpourings after his death on November 25th 2020. During his tempestuous life and ca... ... Read more

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  • Torres

    An Intimate Portrait of the Kid Who Became King

    by Luca Caioli ...
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    A brand new biography of Liverpool and Premier League superstar, Fernando Torres, based on one-of-a-kind insider interviews with those closest to him ... and the player himself. This is the story of a kid who wanted to be a rock star but who turned into a football god, the idolised and adopted son of 42 million Liverpool fans across the world. From his birth in Madrid through to his winning goal ... Read more

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  • Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble

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    This is the story of the greatest achievement in the history of international football.After decades of failure, Spain won the European Championship in 2008 andthen the World Cup in 2010. At Euro 2012 they became the first team to win three consecutive tournament titles.Graham Hunter was inside the dressing room as the players celebrated after the finals of the World Cup and Euro 2012. His access ... Read more

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  • El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid

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  • Football For Dummies, UK Edition

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  • Soccer Vs. The State 2nd Edition

    Tackling Football and Radical Politics

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