A Beautiful Game

Tom Watt

Wherever you are on earth, it's only a matter of time before you will come across children playing football. Another five minutes and you will probably find yourself having a ball rolled to your feet as an invitation to join in the game. Across every continent, football is a common language and a culture shared: a joy, a passion, an escape and an affirmation of identity understood and celebrated by children - and their parents - in every country on earth. For this unique collaborative project, football writer Tom Watt talked to the world's top footballers about growing up and falling in love with the game: Argentina's Lionel Messi and Brazil's Gilberto Silva; England's David James and Scotland's Craig Gordon; Italy's Fabio Cannavaro, Spain's Iker Casillas and France's Franck Ribery; South Africa's Benni McCarthy and Nigeria's Nwankwo Kanu; the USA's Landon Donovan and Shunsuke Nakamura from Japan; and, the world's most famous player, David Beckham. The player's own words are brought to life with over 130 full colour images which offer rare, emotive and striking insights into childhood all over the world and celebrate football's ability to touch the lives of children - and adults - wherever the beautiful game is played.

Abrams

If you're determined to shine in front of coaches and scouts in order to become a professional footballer, COMPLETE ATHLETE can help show you the way. This book will help you prepare to play football at the highest level and to have a potential future as a name on the team sheet for professional and semi-pro managers. Just as importantly, it will also make sure that - however far you're able to go in the game - you'll play at the very top end of whichever level your footballing talent can take you to, whether that's Premier League, Football League, or Sunday League. COMPLETE ATHLETE emphasises the proven fact that success isn't just dependent on your natural ability. Your footballing future will be influenced, too, by your attitude and behaviour, by how you treat yourself and others, on and off the field. Guidelines, suggestions, inspiration, and real life stories are provided throughout the book by our team of contributors and influencers from across the football world. Our intention and our commitment is to help you find your pathway and to succeed in becoming the very best player you can be. Check out the other books in the Complete Athlete series in the Complete Athlete app: Complete Athlete: Baseball with Trevor Hoffman Complete Athlete: Women's Soccer with Mia Hamm Complete Athlete: Understanding the Journey to Becoming a True Professional by Mallory Weggemann

Complete Athlete: Men's Football

Allan Russell

Complete Athlete, LLC

Billy's telling tall stories about his "famous" grandfather, Raphael suspects his coach of murder, Tom and Jerry surprise a talent scout and Katy gets picked to play for England. It's all going on at Shelby Town! A collection of football short stories by a fantastic line-up of children's authors, football writers and players: Alan Davies, Terry Deary, Matt Holland, Nick Hornby, Tom Palmer, Hilary Freeman, Mal Peet, Paul Cookson, Alan Sefton, Curtis Davies (Birmingham City), Vincent Kompany (Manchester City), Faye White (Arsenal) and Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal).

Football Shorts

WALKER BOOKS LTD.

"The End" is a football story that has never been told before. As the era of an all-seater Premier League dawns, it won't be told again. It is an oral history of Arsenal's famous North Bank terraces from which generations of supporters have cheered and bemoaned the fortunes of the world's most famous football team. Sixty years of history - football, of course, but the stories, too, of families and friends, fights and passions, heroes and villains, the best and worst of the Great Saturday Afternoon Adventure - told in the words of the fans who have breathed passionate (and economic) life into Highbury since before the First World War. Tom Watt, a lifelong Arsenal fan himself, spent six months talking to supporters whose memories go back as far as bunking into the first game at Highbury in 1913, through the great years of the 1930s when Arsenal ruled the football world, and into the 1950s when the excitement of a return to football after the War gave way to the team's (but not the supporters') most anonymous years. The worst decade of football hooliganism is described by the fans who suffered (and, in some cases, enjoyed) it most. The prospect of an all-seater future is looked at by the terrace fans who have everything to lose as football prepares for its most significant change since emerging as the country's national game. Watt puts the North Bank story into context by talking to the players, the architects, the administrators, the police and first-aid workers who have serviced the Great Escape that begins for every fan on Saturday at three p.m. He takes advantage, too, of unique access to Arsenal's club records gate receipts, board minutes, press cuttings, programmes and supporters' magazines - to pull together the life of the oral history on which "The End" is built.

The End

Mainstream Publishing

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A Beautiful Game

A Beautiful Game

Complete Athlete: Men's Football

Football Shorts

Football Shorts

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