The Football (Soccer) category has 95 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 254 ratings. The most-rated is Alex Ferguson.
Champagne Football
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Brought to you by Penguin. The number one best seller! Over the course of 15 years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own personal fiefdom. He had his critics, but his power was never seriously challenged until last year, when Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan published a sequence of stories in the Sunday Times containing damaging revelations about his personal compensation and the parlous financial situation of the FAI. Delaney's reputation as a great financial manager was left in tatters. He resigned under pressure and the FAI was left hoping for a massive bail-out from the Irish taxpayer. In Champagne Football, Tighe and Rowan dig deep into the story of Delaney's career and of the FAI's slide into ruin. They show how he surrounded himself with people whose personal loyalty he could count on and a board that failed to notice that the association's finances were shot. They detail Delaney's skilful cultivation of opinion-formers outside the FAI. And they document the culture of excess that Delaney presided over and benefited from, to the detriment of the organisation he led. Champagne Football is a gripping, sometimes darkly hilarious and often enraging piece of reporting by the award-winning journalists who finally pulled back the curtain on the FAI's mismanagement.
©2020 Paul Rowan, Mark Tighe (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Believe Us
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The definitive account of Jürgen Klopp’s astonishing revival of Liverpool Football Club. Liverpool Football Club’s stunning 2020 Premier League title victory deserves a place in the official record of great sporting achievements. The Reds became the first team in British history to hold the European Cup, Super Cup, World Club Cup and domestic league title simultaneously in a masterclass of free-scoring, full throttle footballing prowess. Journalist Melissa Reddy reveals the inside story of Jürgen Klopp’s astonishing revival of Liverpool, culminating in the club’s first domestic league trophy in 30 years. Featuring incisive and insightful reporting, and the thoughts of players, management and club hierarchy, Believe Us paints a vivid picture of this titanic sporting success. Reddy’s unparalleled access to the club brings interviews with everyone from fans and key backroom staff to players including talismanic captain Jordan Henderson, and of course Klopp himself. The perfect gift for any fan of the club or its inimitable leader, this is heavy metal football writing at its best.
©2020 Melissa Reddy (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Red Card
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The story of FIFA's fall from grace has it all: power, betrayal, revenge, sports stars, hustlers, corruption, sex and phenomenal quantities of money, all set against exotic locales stretching from Caribbean beaches to the formal staterooms of the Kremlin and the sun-blasted streets of Doha, Qatar. In Red Card, investigative journalist Ken Bensinger takes a journey to FIFA's dark heart. He introduces the flamboyant villains of the piece - the FIFA kingpins who flaunted their wealth in private jets and New York's grandest skyscrapers - and the dogged team of American FBI and IRS agents, headed by attorney general Loretta Lynch, who finally brought them to book. Providing fresh insights on a scandal which has gripped the world, he shows how greed and arrogance brought down the most powerful institution in sporting history. A wild, gritty, gripping, and at times blackly comic story, Red Card combines world-class journalism with the pace of a thriller. Red Card (filmed as Houses of Deceit) will be a major film, produced by Pearl Street Films, the production company owned by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
©2018 Ken Bensinger (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Basic Soccer Drills for Kids
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Are you looking to take your kids' soccer game to the next level? Check out this guide for youth soccer players (under 15 years) used by coaches, parents and players alike. Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world. It is perfect for kids to play. It is safe, simple, and the skills required can be easily acquired. Becoming an expert player requires high levels of dedication, natural athleticism, and innate skills. Any girl or boy can take to the sport and find enjoyment at their own level. It is for this reason that the game is escalating to such a rapid extent in the US. And it is why the need for coaches and players is growing continuously and rapidly. After all, who would not turn down the chance for their kids to keep physically fit, to allow their natural competitiveness to be channeled in an organized way, to be kept busy in a manner that is both productive and worthwhile? In addition to this, soccer develops dexterity, problem solving, collaboration, friendship, respect, self-discipline, team spirit, and sportsmanship. All of which are life skills that are best acquired young. But there is so much to learn for youngsters who wish to become soccer players at a good club level. Shooting, defending, pressing, passing, controlling the ball, the laws of the game (even professionals struggle at times with the offside law as do, it sometimes seems, the referees themselves). And more important than all of these, children must learn about the spirit of soccer. Fair play and the sportsmanship mentioned above. This is especially so for today’s youngsters facing all the pressures of growing up in a challenging world driven by the twin pressures of consumerism and social media. Here's what's included in this audiobook: The 7 different kinds of skills that kids need to learn in soccer How ball control skills escalate the level of your kids soccer game Six passing drills that will improve team cohesion quickly Offensive tips, tricks and drills that will make your team win Six drills that will make your kids get to defend in numbers and strength How to get kids to learn from the pros on TV Six drills that will make your kids get to defend in numbers and strength Five dribbling tips and drills that will make your kid stand out How the mental side of soccer will improve your kids social and life skills What parents must do during soccer practice and games Even if you've never played or watched soccer in your life before, you and your kids will gain a significant amount of knowledge from this audiobook!
©2019 Kumar (P)2019 Kumar
The Manager
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From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be the manager. But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in crisis? What’s the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure? The issues are the same whether you’re managing a Premier League soccer team or an FTSE 100 company. Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in soccer management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be the most adroit of leaders. In The Manager they explain their methods, give examples of lessons they’ve learned along the way, and describe the decisions they make and the leadership they provide. Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue for managers in any walk of life and, in their own words, shows how the experts deal with the challenges they face in an abnormally high-pressure environment. Offering valuable lessons for business leaders and fascinating behind-the-scenes insights for soccer fans, The Manager is an honest, accessible and unprecedented look at the day-to-day work of these high-profile characters and the world of top-level soccer management.
©2013 The League Managers Association (LMA) and Mike Carson (P)2013 Audible Inc.
Soccer Analytics
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Do you love soccer and want to get better in a systematic manner? Or have you ever wondered how top-level coaches and players think about the game? This audiobook is your answer. Analytics are playing an increasing role in the world of soccer. The days of gut instinct representing the main tactic in a game are passing, and a more calculated approach is being applied to coaching and playing. This has the advantage of providing a secure base on which coaches and players can apply their bits of skill, their touches of magic that can turn a game. This audiobook will explain what soccer analytics are and how they work in a game. It will analyze different parts of play during a game and provide ideas and details around how analytics can improve a team during various passages of play. It will show it is possible to carry out analytics without recourse to expensive software and the kind of backroom team that is only possible in the higher levels of the professional game. Here's what's included in this audiobook: How analytics are used in soccer Team-formation analytics Attacking set-play analytics Defensive set-play analytics Player-performance analytics Player-injury analytics Player-combination analytics Scroll up and download now.
©2018 Abhishek Kumar (P)2018 Abhishek Kumar
The Premier League's Worst Ever Players
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Did Francis Jeffers ever keep you awake at night? Did you slap yourself in the face each time you witnessed an Eric Djemba-Djemba attack-splitting pass? Did Titus Bramble cause you to eat your match program in frustration? Then this is the book you've been waiting for. Relive all your least favorite Premier League moments by taking a journey back through the maze of frustration, disillusionment and failure that is the Premier League's worst ever players. Grimace, wince and sob as you take a trip down the derelict end of memory lane, through a history of the Premier League's most inept, incompetent, overpaid and under-talented exponents of the beautiful game. Players who looked terrified whenever the ball came within 20 yards of them, players who would struggle to make the bench for their son's under-7s team and players who surprised you by managing to make it onto the field wearing the correct strip. If you've ever watched a Premier League player and wondered how they managed to turn professional and you didn't, if you were left speechless as they were allowed to continue spreading their misery well into the second half, if they rang Graeme Souness pretending to be George Weah's cousin or if they left you dumbfounded at the fact they'd managed to convince someone to pay them a wage to represent your hopes and dreams, you'll find them all here.
©2013 Peter Nuttall (P)2015 Peter Nuttall
Spillets forvandling
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For 30 år siden var Europas herrefodbold martret af vold og tragedie. Fodbolden var blevet synonym med grove tackling og tilskueruroligheder, der kulminerede med stadiontragedierne på Heysel og Hillsborough. Det stod så slemt til, at Margaret Thatchers britiske regering overvejede af indstille den professionelle fodbold. Det skete ikke, i stedet voksede en ny sport ud af ruinerne. Klubfodbolden blev rigere, dyrere, smukkere, renere, mere højlydt og global, men også mere ulige og forudsigelig.
Spillets forvandling er historien om tre årtier, der ændrede fodbolden for altid. Om idéernes kamp, og om nøglepersoner som Van Gaal, Mourinho, Guardiola, Wenger, Xavi, Messi, Ronaldo, Bosman, Murdoch og Abramovitj, om Premier Leagues og Champions Leagues fødsel og sejrsgang. Og om hvorfor fodboldstøvler ikke længere er sorte.
©2019 Gyldendal (P)2019 Gyldendal
Premier League Legends: The 10 Greatest Premier League Players of All Time
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The English Premier League is the richest in the world, with clubs able to attract some of the best footballing talent on the planet. But who are the 10 greatest players ever to have graced the Premier League?
©2016 Ian Slatter (P)2018 Ian Slatter
Soccer: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Score, Dribble Past the Other Team, and Work with Your Teammates (3 Books in 1)
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A player who couldn’t score. A bleak soccer future as a bench-warmer. An athlete who lacked confidence in his game. Are you or a loved one enjoying soccer, but can’t stand not being confident on what to do with the ball? Do you or a child have a problem getting shots and making them go in? Are you a parent or player that would love to dribble several opponents at once but struggle even beating one? If any of these situations describe you, you are not alone. Coaches of soccer are good at having the team work together. Sadly, your abilities as an individual are often lost in the team’s tactics unless you are the star player on the team. The coach lets the best player do as they please, but every other player must do their job. This is great when you are the favorite player, but more often than not you are just existing on the field and not really contributing to your team in the way you want to. This three-in-one bundled book contains the second, third, and fourth books of the Understand Soccer Series. Therefore, you get the following three books for the price of two: Soccer Shooting & Finishing: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Score Soccer Dribbling & Foot Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Dribble Past the Other Team Soccer Passing & Receiving: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Work with Your Teammates From these three books, you will: Learn the shooting form to use most often and which ones are important in different game situation. Find out the one skill to beat a defender every time. Discover the two things to take any okay soccer player and make them great overnight. Why does learning these things matter? Well, building your knowledge grows your confidence. Self-esteem is key for any soccer player and building the belief in your child will allow them to play to the level you know they can play. You may think those are all well and great, but “how can a book really deliver on increasing the abilities of yourself, son, daughter, or team? Why not just watch a YouTube to see it too?” Excitingly, this bundled book lays out step-by-step what you should work on and the most important keys to being able to perform on the field. Yes, other author’s will fill up their pages with tips for various situations, but never really say which things to know are the most important and will make the biggest difference in your game. This book does exactly that. It is time for hours of soccer practice to finally pay off. Become the player, coach, or parent that changes every game from here on out. Listen to your copy today by clicking "Buy Now". PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Understand, LLC (P)2019 Understand, LLC
Ballzauber
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Was ist ein Hattrick? Wenn ein Fußballspieler es schafft innerhalb einer Halbzeit drei Tore zu schießen. Übersetzt heißt das englische Wort eigentlich nicht mehr als Hut-Trick. Spieler, die diesen Trick schaffen werden in der Tat auch in Fußballbüchern als Zauberer bezeichnet. Doch wie viel haben Fußball und Zauberei tatsächlich gemein? Da die Autorin sich seit vielen Jahren mit Magie beschäftigt, kann sie mit einer Fülle von Fakten das Ballspiel beschreiben und die magischen Elemente darin enttarnen. Und dabei wird ganz schnell deutlich was für eine besondere Position dieser Sport einnimmt.
©2006 SAGA Egmont (P)2020 SAGA Egmont
Cheer Up Peter Reid
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Peter Reid is one of the most colourful characters to emerge from England over the last 50 years. As a player, he established himself as one of the leading midfielders of his era, being named PFA Player of the Year in 1985 and credited as the fourth best footballer in the world. He won numerous honours with Everton, including two league titles, one FA Cup and one European Cup Winners’ Cup. He also won 13 England caps, playing at the 1986 World Cup - where a date with destiny at the ‘hand’ of Diego Maradona would provide a lasting, painful memory. This is the unique story of a footballer who got to the top and never forgot his roots. Told with typical forthrightness, Peter’s audiobook will capture the imagination of football fans far and wide.
©2017 Peter Reid (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
Newcastle United's Worst Ever Players
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Did Wayne Fereday ruin your life? Was Silvio Maric directly responsible for your high dentist bills due to the constant gnashing and grinding of your molars? Did Billy Askew's hair give you nightmares, or did the merest mention of Alain Boumsong's name have the same effect as the aftermath of a Vindaloo? Then this is the book you've been waiting for. Relive all your least favorite Newcastle United moments by taking a journey back through the labyrinth of frustration, disillusionment, and failure that is Newcastle United's worst ever players. Grimace, cringe, and wince as you take a trip down the derelict end of memory lane, through a history of Newcastle United's most inept, incompetent, and overpaid exponents of the beautiful game. Players who panicked whenever the ball came within 20 yards of them, players who would struggle to make the bench for St. Joseph's School under-sevens team and players who surprised you by managing to put their boots on the right feet. If you've ever watched a Newcastle United player and wondered how they managed to turn professional and you didn't, if you were left speechless as they were allowed to continue spreading their misery well into the second half or dumbfounded at the fact they'd managed to convince someone to pay them a wage to stumble around the field and offer nothing more to the cause than the corner flag, you'll find them all here.
©2014 Peter Nuttall (P)2015 Peter Nuttall
Soccer Training: A Step-by-Step Guide on 14 Topics for Intelligent Soccer Players, Coaches, and Parents
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With game-proven methods to score more against any team, this is your manual for success! How teams play is unpredictable...or is it? Through countless hours of practice, training, and experience, soccer's elite have shown consistent patterns of in-game skills that, when applied, will lead to very predictable outcomes - more goals, more assists, and more wins! Learn what coaches do not teach, not because they do not care, but because they just don't know. Often, coaches emphasize the team's abilities while giving little to no time and minimal volume to the skills of each individual. It is just as essential to develop the players within the system. This is a high-level overview of the areas that can take a player from being a benchwarmer to MVP. In a day and age where many so-called experts' advice is to improve your conditioning, get more touches, try harder, and want it more, this audiobook stands out on delivering the steps to turn any player into a great performer. Who this is for: The defender who does not know which direction to push an attacker The midfielder who does not get enough assists The forward who does not score at least two goals a game Parents Coaches Outcomes of applying this audiobook: Understand how to beat a defender every time (plus a few skills to avoid) Condition your mind-set to become one of a winner You may ask, "Why is this better than watching free YouTube videos?" Well, though YouTube can be used to complement this audiobook because videos show visuals of the skills, each video is often unorganized, and the order in which you watch the videos is not structured at all. This audiobook provides that structure. It gives every player the ability to walk onto a field and know that, one, your team will win, and two, you will lead them to victory! It is time for hours of soccer training to pay off. Become the player, coach, or parent who changes every game from here on out. Pick up your copy today by clicking "Buy Now". PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Understand, LLC (P)2018 Understand, LLC
Soccer Dribbling & Foot Skills
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How defenses think and react during a game is not easily understood…or is it? Through countless hours of practice, training, and experience, soccer's elite have shown consistent patterns of in-game skills that when applied, will lead to predictable outcomes - more goals, more assists, and more wins! The current soccer books on the market teach about general knowledge without the clear steps to use skills to quickly get past players on the other team. Learn what coaches do not teach, not because they don’t care, but because they just don’t know how to improve a player's confidence and abilities to get past the other team. Often, coaches only emphasize the team's abilities to pass, while giving no time to the dribbling skills of each individual. It is just as essential to develop the players within the system as it is to strengthen the squad itself. Who this book is for: The defender who lacks the confidence to control the ball in the backfield or who wants to make the transition from defense to offense. The midfielder who finds themselves passing often because they can't beat a defender. The forward who doesn’t create the space to take at least five shots per game. The parent who loves their child, but hates to see them struggle with a lack of self-esteem. The coach that knows their squad can succeed if their players' attacking foot skills, shot fakes, and awareness on how to outsmart defenders improved. Outcomes of applying the facts in this book: Learn how to create enough space to get a shot on target. Know which move to use when you are being defended. Ensure that you are using moves that will work every time. It is time for hours of practicing dribbling and foot skills to pay off. Become the player, coach, or parent that changes every game from here on out. Get up your copy today by clicking "Buy Now". Please note: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Understand, LLC (P)2018 Understand, LLC
The Ultimate Guide to Soccer Positions
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Desperate to improve your striking skills but lack the inside knowledge on how to do so? Want to know how to imitate the world's best professional strikers? There are a few straightforward procedures you can undertake to achieve top striking ability. Listen to my book to find out how what they are and how to implement them. With the secrets contained within, you will be equipped to become the amazing goal-scorer you always wanted to be! Success in soccer is not always down to having the best shot or dribbling skills. It also depends on game intelligence - the ability to read football with a tactical and pre-emptory eye. Like a game of chess, soccer requires cunning and know-how. You must defeat your opponent mentally as well as physically and technically. Game intelligence is a hard skill to teach, but my manual has uncovered the secret. With the tips contained within it you will be able to expand your game intelligence and your knowledge of the intricacies of playing soccer exponentially. Don't waste any more time, start developing your game intelligence today! Ever tried to develop a new skill but been frustrated by failure? Ever tried something that the next footballer learns easily but you struggle to master? Learning new skills can often be an arduous task. However, the difficulties of obtaining new skills can be avoided with the information contained inside my manual. Using techniques popular among South American, and especially Brazilian, players, my guide will show you how to add new skills to your repertoire quickly and easily!
©2016 Mirsad Hasic (P)2016 Mirsad Hasic
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Grupo salvaje [Wild Group]
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El audiolibro que firma Manuel Jabois, Grupo salvaje, traza un recorrido por el madridismo de un niño gallego. No es algo casual, porque para Jabois el fútbol y la infancia van unidos. "Yo pienso que el fútbol es un estado natural de la infancia, algo irracional que mantener dentro de los cauces de la no violencia, pero esta tontería de felicitar al rival o concederle valor nunca la acabé de ver. Uno en la vida puede tener amigos de izquierdas y de derechas, casarse con mujeres del Atlético y hasta tener a un hijo del Barcelona, si la providencia es especialmente cruel, pero todo transcurrirá con armonía y piques sanos hasta que empiece el partido. El partido de fútbol pienso yo que es la infancia alocada, parcial y furiosa de quien patalea y llora. Ahí uno está defendiendo su parcela de niñez. "Yo quería hacer con los goles de Hugo Sánchez lo que después quise hacer con mi vida: detenerlos en el tiempo, congelar la felicidad y mantenerla envasada en la nevera para cogerlos cualquier día y abrirlos como si fuesen un helado. Me avergonzaba cuando mis padres abrían la habitación y me encontraban un martes por la noche dándole al play y escuchando aquello embelesadamente, tratando de sentir dos días después lo mismo: cazar el instante, y por tanto devolverme a esos pocos segundos en los que era feliz de una manera extrema y bellísima. "Levantó los brazos espasmódicamente y todo su cuerpecillo se agitó despacio. Luego se dio la vuelta, por fin, después de tantos años, y gritó '¡gol!' mientras nosotros, sentados, nos levantábamos a chocarle la mano por lo menos. 'Higuaín,' dijo antes de desplomarse sobre su silla para seguir viendo el partido, 'es el mejor.' Así que nuestro viejo era del Pipa y ahí teníamos uno de los milagros del fútbol: un anciano gallego devoto hasta no se sabía qué punto de un veinteañero argentino, un killer que había llegado a Madrid con pinta de luchador voluntarioso. "Al fin y al cabo es a las emociones antiguas a las que se les tiene más cariño, como hijos que le acompañan a uno desde niño. Lo sagrado del partido del Madrid permanece quieto como el primer día; como si, desde el primer partido, el Madrid solo hubiera jugado un primer partido tras otro. Y ese regreso perpetuo a lo que fuimos es un milagro en la medida en que uno siempre, pase lo que pase, es del Madrid como la primera vez." Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2012 Manuel Jabois Sueiro 2012 Libros del K.O., S.L.L. (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
The Farther Corner
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Widely regarded as one of the best football books ever written, The Far Corner was a vivid portrait of the sport in the North-East and of the people who bring such passion to it. Now, a generation later, Harry Pearson returns to the region to discover how much things have changed - and how much they have remained the same. In the mid-1990s, Kevin Keegan brought sporting romance and expectation of trophies to Newcastle, Sunderland moved the the Stadium of Light backed by a wealthy consortium, Middlesbrough signed one of the best Brazilians of the era and won their first major trophy - even little Darlington had a former safe-cracker turned kitchen magnate in charge, promising the world. The region even provided England's two key players in Euro 96 in Alan Shearer and Paul Gascoigne - the far corner seemed destined to become the centre of England's footballing world. But it never happened. Using travels to and from matches in the 2018-19 season, The Farther Corner will explore the changes in North-East football and society over the past 25 years. Visiting new places and some familiar ones, catching the stories, the sentiment and the sound of the supporters, locating where football now sits in the life of a region that was once proud to be what John Arlott suggested was ‘The Hotbed of Soccer’, it will be about love and loss and the happiness to be found eating KitKats and joking about Bobby Mimms on cold February days in coal-scented northern air. The region may have been left behind in the Champions League stakes, but few would doubt the power of its beating heart.
©2020 Harry Pearson. All rights reserved (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, UK. All Rights Reserved.
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Grupo salvaje [Wild Group]
Summary
El audiolibro que firma Manuel Jabois, Grupo salvaje, traza un recorrido por el madridismo de un niño gallego. No es algo casual, porque para Jabois el fútbol y la infancia van unidos. "Yo pienso que el fútbol es un estado natural de la infancia, algo irracional que mantener dentro de los cauces de la no violencia, pero esta tontería de felicitar al rival o concederle valor nunca la acabé de ver. Uno en la vida puede tener amigos de izquierdas y de derechas, casarse con mujeres del Atlético y hasta tener a un hijo del Barcelona, si la providencia es especialmente cruel, pero todo transcurrirá con armonía y piques sanos hasta que empiece el partido. El partido de fútbol pienso yo que es la infancia alocada, parcial y furiosa de quien patalea y llora. Ahí uno está defendiendo su parcela de niñez. "Yo quería hacer con los goles de Hugo Sánchez lo que después quise hacer con mi vida: detenerlos en el tiempo, congelar la felicidad y mantenerla envasada en la nevera para cogerlos cualquier día y abrirlos como si fuesen un helado. Me avergonzaba cuando mis padres abrían la habitación y me encontraban un martes por la noche dándole al play y escuchando aquello embelesadamente, tratando de sentir dos días después lo mismo: cazar el instante, y por tanto devolverme a esos pocos segundos en los que era feliz de una manera extrema y bellísima. "Levantó los brazos espasmódicamente y todo su cuerpecillo se agitó despacio. Luego se dio la vuelta, por fin, después de tantos años, y gritó '¡gol!' mientras nosotros, sentados, nos levantábamos a chocarle la mano por lo menos. 'Higuaín,' dijo antes de desplomarse sobre su silla para seguir viendo el partido, 'es el mejor.' Así que nuestro viejo era del Pipa y ahí teníamos uno de los milagros del fútbol: un anciano gallego devoto hasta no se sabía qué punto de un veinteañero argentino, un killer que había llegado a Madrid con pinta de luchador voluntarioso. "Al fin y al cabo es a las emociones antiguas a las que se les tiene más cariño, como hijos que le acompañan a uno desde niño. Lo sagrado del partido del Madrid permanece quieto como el primer día; como si, desde el primer partido, el Madrid solo hubiera jugado un primer partido tras otro. Y ese regreso perpetuo a lo que fuimos es un milagro en la medida en que uno siempre, pase lo que pase, es del Madrid como la primera vez." Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2012 Manuel Jabois Sueiro 2012 Libros del K.O., S.L.L. (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Robbie Fowler
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To Liverpool fans he was 'God', but Robbie Fowler has never told his full story - until now. In Robbie Fowler: My Life in Football, Robbie takes us on a journey through the games that have shaped his career and thinking about football, from Hillsborough to Istanbul, via the cup treble, that celebration, all those goals, Houllier, Benitiez, Klopp and the rest. Personal and revealing, Robbie's stories come from a life spent inside the game. He invites us inside the dressing room, sharing stories of legendary teammates like Rush, Owen and Gerrard, his love of the Kop, his greatest achievements and his biggest regrets - as well as the money, fame and hoopla that surround the modern game. Discussing frankly his rise to football's top table, his struggles with injuries and retirement, as well as his feelings about the modern game, Robbie Fowler: My Life in Football harks back to a simpler time when fans and players shared the same story, and when the local boy really could dream of scoring a hat-trick for his home club when Saturday came.
©2019 Robbie Fowler (P)2019 Bonnier Books UK