Rob Watkins es un excelente fotografo que ha hecho libros muy interesantes, todos ellos de fotografia deportiva, entre las mas recientes se encuentra esta serie de Fútbol en lodo, donde casi siempre aparecen hermosas chicas jugando al deporte mas bello, poesia pura.

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As an avid reader my entire life my mood toward material is constantly changing. Every couple of months I am into something else. Sometimes it can be non-fiction that includes material on great leaders, real life travel journals, serial killer profiles, organized crime; other times it is fiction that includes Paulo Coehlo, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, and Truman Capote.

So how's everyone doing in the last breathless run-up to World Cup? Checking out some of those friendlies? Obsessively filling out wall charts, making predictions? Chewing your own arm off in crazed anticipation?
One of the ways we here at a pretty move have been coping is by acquiring a stash of footie books to keep us going before, during, and in the aftermath of World Cup 2010.

For those of you interesed in reading good soccer related material I suggested reading Soccernomics a few weeks ago (Sam also previously recommended it in a post a while back). Since soccer related books seem to be popping up with some frequency, mostly due to World Cup excitement, I've been searching for US and MLS related material to share and I've found a few good ones.

It's easy to be cynical about a book written by an American history professor which starts out describing the events of July 9, 2006. Oh shit, you think to yourself, it's John Doyle with a doctorate; another football outsider thinking his fresh set of eyes can derive some deeper social meaning from "The Beautiful Game" which the rest of us have somehow missed all these years.

Steve Brookes is a diehard united fan. He spent a lot of time recently to bring for you a great book called The Manchester United Premier Years. It is a statistical book which you should own and add...
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"Forget the underwear ads. Forget the movie. Want to know about the world's most famous athlete and his impact on the world around him? Let Grant Wahl show you. For more than a decade, observers have banged their heads bloody trying to penetrate the Beckham phenomenon. Now, having barreled through the crack created by Captain Galaxy's fish-out-of-water foray into America, Wahl reveals the strange welter of celebrity, sport and mind-boggling obliviousness lying at its core.

I had mentioned in a previous tweet that I was in the process of writing a review of Soccernomics, the best-selling book by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski. I wanted to write the best review possible without giving away too many of the details, so it took a little longer to write than I would have liked.

book excerpt – one (every)man's dream to own a pro soccer team

A native of Buffalo, NY, born to German immigrants, Ronald P. Maierhofer, 74, has been involved with soccer in the United States for eight decades. In 1942 his father started the first youth soccer league in Buffalo.

Here's the deal. If you're not reading Mal Peet's books (especially about soccer), then you're really missing out. I picked up Keeper on a whim. A coworker recommended it to me, saying that she was pretty sure it was perfect for me. The thing is, it was. The book is a beautifully written novel about a famous goalkeeper from an imaginary South American country (widely assumed to be Brazil, but

Do you need a new book? I don't but I want one (I have 6 footie books right now that I have yet to read but my megalomania will not allow me to pass up even a paperback so I'll probably buy this one anyway). So let's read Amazon has to say about my future purchase:
Woodburn High's Bulldogs, aka Los Perros, started their 2005 soccer season with eight undocumented students, a midfielder groomed to play for a pro Mexican team, a goalkeeper living in his third foster home, three boys who spoke almost no English, and an Irish-descended white coach desperate to lead all of them to success.

Local writers from the Storehouse Writers Workshop are set to launch their first book of collected stories - all set in Southend.
The Writers Workshop was given a small grant by Turning Tides Neighbourhood Management - a project supported by Southend Association of Voluntary Services (SAVS).

ESPN, "the Worldwide Leader in Sports", has already dropped their 2010 World Cup Guide "bookazine" and next month will lay upon us the 256-page, hardcover ESPN World Cup Companion written by David Hershey* and some other guy with a foreword by Canuckistan's most-fabled Celebrity Glory-Seeker, Steve Nash.

Attention fellow book-nerds: if you made it through Markovits & Hellerman's Offside: Soccer & American Exceptionalism AND Rangers, Rovers & Spindles with a smile on your face have I found a treat for you. It's called Star-Spangled Soccer and it has interviews with everyone who has ever had anything to do with American soccer over the last 20 years except for Tiffany May; Chuck Blazer, The Don, Sunil Gulati, Clark Hunt, Jonathan Kraft, Joe Roth, Will Chang, Tim Leweike, Mark Abbott and John Skipper are just a few of the people quoted in this 256-page, hardcover textbook that may actually make the footie-business nerd in you want to go back to school.

While mooching a burger from the buffet in the Qwest Field press box during First Kick 2010, I met a photographer by the name of Richard Morrison. Turns out he's actually a doctor by trade but a footie-freak who knows his way around a camera. On June 1 he'll add "published author" to his almost Barbie-esque resume when Sasquatch Press drops his first book, Seattle Sounders FC: Season One.

The ESPN World Cup Companion is due out in bookstores this week. I was able to get my hands on a copy before it was released, so I thought I'd share a quick mini-review of it to give you a glimpse of what's inside the book as well as to show you some of the photography and featured sections.

The US Cover

"What makes a player?" Answers to this question, here quoted from Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger's foreword to the newish book A Beautiful Game, are plentiful in world football. We debate the right age to go pro, the role of intensive youth academies, shifting population demographics, the dangers and benefits of increasing professionalization, and more in hopes of figuring out how to best tap the potential of millions of children playing the game with unstructured joy.

Hace poco tiempo salió a la venta un libro llamado Freakonomics que rapidamente se convirtió en un bestseller y que se basa en ejemplos prácticos y una sarcástica perspicacia, Levitt y su coautor, Stephen J. Dubner, demuestran que la economía, en el fondo no es lo que parece.

Ahead of the World Cup in South Africa, a spate of books on African football was to be expected. Africa, after all, has traditionally been underserved as far as football writing goes. Until last year, the genre could more or less be summed up in three books: Peter auf der Heyde's Has Anybody Got a Whistle?

Click the link to view Rio's sick online magazine (#5 Magazine). He has done it again with another fantastic issue that includes a video interview with Wayne Rooney, some serious fighting scenes from the legendary Bruce Lee, as well as the usual sections on fashion, gadgets, music and film.

I have no idea what kind of distribution The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer is going to get outside of Canada and Ireland, where the author, John Doyle, has some kind of following. But if you're in Canada, I suspect it's going to be hard to go into a bookshop for the next two months without seeing this book prominently on display.

He is one of the most awesomist wordsmiths ever -like Neil Tennant if he took up soccer writing in place of pop stardom. You have to listen to the first two minutes of this audio interview with him promoting his superb new book on Amazon.com. The way he describes being a footie freak back in the day is pretty much amazing; he somehow makes admitting you're a soccer fan sound like coming out of the closet (not that there is any reason to be in a closet unless you are R.

AUTHOR KICKS OFF!
Satirical plays exposes the farcical world of money, power and sport in the 'beautiful' game.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
KPC Exall was born in the East Anglian City of Norwich, famous for its "mustard and celebrity cook Delia Smith". He first discovered the thrill of football as a child and has been a supporter of his city's football club ever since, during the good times.

With The Manager: The Absurd Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football, Barney Ronay has put together what should be a very interesting book on the evolution of the role of the manager in football. Well, English football anyway: Johnny Foreigner doesn't really get a look-in unless he's followed Arsene Wenger and washed up on England's shores.

Filip Bondy, Chasing the Game: America and the Quest for the World Cup, Da Capo Books, 2010. The types of soccer-related books written for the American market are not as varied as those you might find in other countries. There are a lot of books on youth soccer, on various drills and training methods, and a couple of books on the history of the World Cup, but few books on the history of American soccer.

A few weeks ago I wrote a review of Beau Dure's "Long Range Goals". Both Dure's book and Gary Hopkins' "Star Spangles Soccer" cover the growth and expansion of Major League Soccer but Hopkins expands his reach to include the growth of the game in America as a whole. While Dure focused on Major League Soccer's history, Hopkins reels in the development and future growth of the American game in economic, social, and athletic terms.

I just finished reading The Boys From Little Mexico A Season Chasing the American Dream, by Steve Wilson. It was excellent, and thoroughly enjoyable, and I recommend it.

The book is about a high school soccer team in Woodburn, Oregon, and their quest for the state championship. What makes their story more interesting is the fact that, unlike almost every other team in the state, the team is almost entirely Hispanic.

Editor's note: Our regular book reviewer Alex Usher delves into football in Israel with Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler's Goals for Galilee: The Triumphs and Traumas of the Sons of Sakhnin, Israel's Arab Football Club and Tamir Sorek's Arab Soccer in a Jewish State.

There is only one David Beckham -- and it's not always the one you read about in the newspapers and magazines or see in the movies. From humble East End London beginnings, the boy with prodigious soccer skills grew up to be one of the most gifted athletes of his generation as well as a sex symbol and fashion icon.

As a card-carrying member of the Society of Young Publishers and a certified football spod, I'm always on the lookout for ways to bring two of my major interests together. Happy was the Christmas Day I spent with David Goldblatt's 911-page whopper The Ball is Round in one hand and an isosceles turkey sandwich in the other.

I suspect most fans will do what I did when they first pick up Around the Grounds – flick straight to the page about their club. This book profiles all 92 league clubs and their stadia with a potted history and trivia, as well some great photos, and Forest get four pages. But reading about your own club in this book is missing the point [.

There's a common assumption amongst the general population that books about football tend to be, well, crap. And unfortunately, in most circumstances, that tends to be the case. But that isn't to say...
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