The Top Flight recommends five books that anyone who loves or want to know more about the beautiful game should buy and add to their reading list.
We all love football, this game where eleven players run around chasing a single ball. It is admired and loved worldwide. There is a thousand players and fans from Asia, America, Europe, Africa and Australia, who understand the game even more than us.
We all learnt the books from school are important to our lives and we should have a good reading habit to understand the world, gaining a greater knowledge about it. However, when it is about tactics, or even a biography of a legendary manager or player, it is better to discover their respective life. Thus, I picked 5 books that you should read before you die.
5. How to watch Football
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This book is a gift for every football fan, as Ruud Gullit explains that we watch a match as a fan and not as a professional.
4. Futebol: The Brazilian way of life.
Alex Bellos wrote about how Brazil changed football, and how this sport changed us (I’m Brazilian too). Bellos shows a good perspective of the Brazilian life style and how it aligns with football.
3. Huddy: The Official Biography of Alan Hudson
If you’ve never heard about Alan Hudson. I can tell you that he was an English footballer who played on Chelsea, Arsenal, Stoke City, Seattle Saunders, as well as the English national team.
2. The European Game: The secrets of European football success.
Almost every soccer or football (whatever) fan worldwide support or even like a European team. Thus, this is a good tip for you.
1. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
I will only say that Jonathan Wilson wrote a football bible of tactics and if you do not read it yet, you should do it!
That’s my book list if you disagree or have another idea. Please let me know leave your comments below and discuss it.