Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S, Japan, Australia—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport

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Named one of the “Best Books of the Year” by Guardian, Slate, Financial Times, Independent (UK), and Bloomberg News

Soccernomics pioneers a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous, empirical analysis and incisive, witty commentary. The San Francisco Chronicle describes it as “the most intelligent book ever written about soccer.” This World Cup edition features new material, including a provocative examination of how soccer clubs might actually start making profits, why that's undesirable, and how soccer's never had it so good.

• Inverting The Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics
• The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
• How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
• Das Reboot: How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World
• The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
• Fever Pitch
• Money and Soccer: A Soccernomics Guide: Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester ... and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped
• Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game Pro-Edition (Bloomsbury Sigma)
• Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer
• Soccernomics (2018 World Cup Edition): Why England Loses; Why Germany, Spain, and France Win; and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport