New football book titles out this month include El Nino: My Story, the autobiography of Liverpool's
Fernando Torres, Glory Glory, Andy Mitten's interviews with Manchester United stars of the 1990s
and 39 Days of Gazza, the sad story of Paul Gascoigne's ill-fated time in charge of non-League
Kettering Town.
I've read each of the following books and suggest them for holiday gifts.
Love and Blood at the World Cup/Jamie Trecker
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro/ Joe McGinniss
How Soccer Explains the World/Franklin Foer
Soccer in a Football World/David Wangerin
Girls of Summer/Jere Longman
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- 18 Recommended Soccer Books To Read This Summer It's the perfect time of the year to
catch.
From a friend, I just received Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, and I plan on
reading it over the holidays. From what I've heard about it, it appears to be a soccer-specific
analogue of Michael Lewis' Moneyball. The difference is that Kuper and Szymanski are looking at
multiple issues in the soccer world at large, while Lewis is focusing on a single team and using it
to examine broader issues.
