Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the US, Japan, Australia, Turkey-and Even Iraq-Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781568587059
Publish date: May 1st 2012
Publisher: Nation Books
Pages no: 450
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Business,
Economics,
Culture,
Politics,
Sociology,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Pop Culture,
Mathematics
Originally found on my book blog! This was the best possible book to read before the World Cup because it focuses more on countries as national teams as a whole more than individual teams. There was a lot of information that helped me better understand the World Cup and soccer in general, which is w...
I found the chapters on economic analysis of team cashflow, as well as the analysis on hosting world sporting events the most interesting. Entertaining and thought provoking book!
I am not a die-hard soccer fan, but this book proves that sports are sports and fans are fans. Rightly called "the Moneyball of soccer"