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Passionate Soccer Love

Author : Tanya H. Keith

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 45,48 MB

Release : 2014-05-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1496910818

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Passionate Soccer Love: A Memoir of 20 Years Supporting US Soccer chronicles the travels of Tanya Keith through seven World Cups and beyond. Her stories are funny, entertaining, and will enthrall readers with her perseverance, passion, and dreams. Experience the history and camaraderie of American Soccer supporter culture as you get to know her soccer family. Through tales of soccer adventure, Ms. Keith shows how her contagious passion has paved the way for her dreams to become reality and how following your passion can bring balance between love and life, business and family. Praise for Passionate Soccer Love: Tanya Keith has been traveling to U.S. soccer games since 1993, including seven World Cups, and her highly readable book is a revealing (and fun) window into the adventurous life of a hardcore U.S. fan and her family. The growth of U.S. supporter culture is one of the great stories in American sports, and Keith has been there to see it all. I couldnt put this book down. Grant Wahl, Sports Illustrated - Senior Writer, Fox Sports Television, SiriusXM FC Channel 94 Tanya Keith is someone who lives out and embodies each of the words in the title of her book, Passionate Soccer Loveindividually and collectively. With humor and grace, she weaves entertaining and heartfelt stories of her two families, the one with her husband and children, and the other her soccer family, which, like her support for the U.S. mens national team, has no bounds. If, like her, youve fallen so hard and so deep for soccer, and appreciate the struggles and joys of familyon the field and offyoull see yourself in the pages of her book. Passionate Soccer Love is a highly worthy and recommended addition to the bookshelf of any soccer fan. Jimmy LaRoue, The Daily Advance



Soccer Is My Passion

Author : E.B. Kevin

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 51 pages

File Size : 34,71 MB

Release : 2020-08-27

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1664127615

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Soccer is the most popular sport in Brazil. Brazilian young children love playing soccer in the streets, and several people in Brazil gather every week in stadiums and pubs to watch soccer matches. The purpose of this fiction book is to inspire kids to follow their dreams regardless of other people’s opinions and turn their passion into a profession. This book will influence you in various ways: - It will help you become the best version of yourself - Encourage you to chase your dreams - Motivate you to work hard in order to become successful



Football Psychology

Author : Erkut Konter

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 24,44 MB

Release : 2019-05-01

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1351975498

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Presenting an empirically underpinned synthesis of research and theory, while offering guidance for applied practitioners, this is the first book to comprehensively map the psychology of learning, playing, and coaching the world’s favourite sport. The book provides a complete analysis of key topics that capture the broad range of football psychology such as personality, motivation, cognition, and emotion; coaching and team essentials; psychological skills for performance enhancement; and developing players in youth football. Including contributions from a range of international researchers, each chapter provides a review of the relevant literature, key theories, real-world examples, and reflections on how knowledge can be applied in practice. Split into four sections, the book covers a diverse range of topics relevant not only to coaching and performance but also to personality development and health promotion. Essential reading for any student, researcher, or professional in the area, the book is the most cutting-edge overview of how psychology can explain and improve the way football is both played and understood.



Long Distance Love

Author : Grant Farred

Publisher : Temple University Press

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 45,95 MB

Release : 2008-02-15

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1592133746

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Writing about his experiences, Farred shares with the reader his experienced growing up coloured in South Africa, moving to England, and finally to the USA, and how his passion for football kept company with his many moves.



Star-Spangled Soccer

Author : G. Hopkins

Publisher : Springer

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 31,48 MB

Release : 2016-01-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0230278043

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Star-Spangled Soccer traces the development of soccer in the USA. It is the first book that tells the story of how the sport rose to extreme highs and suffered almost catastrophic lows as it fought to position itself on the American sports landscape, beginning with the announcement from FIFA in 1988 that America would host the 1994 World Cup.



Africa United

Author : Steve Bloomfield

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 15,87 MB

Release : 2010-04-22

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0062010336

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Africa United is the story of modern day Africa told through its soccer. Travelling across thirteen countries, from Cairo to the Cape, Steve Bloomfield, the former Africa Correspondent for The Independent, meets players and fans, politicians and rebel leaders, discovering the role that soccer has played in shaping the continent. This wide-ranging and incisive book investigates Africa’s love of soccer, its increasing global influence, the build-up to the 2010 World Cup itself and the social and political backdrop to the greatest show on earth.



The United States of Soccer

Author : Phil West

Publisher : Abrams

Page : 253 pages

File Size : 18,22 MB

Release : 2016-11-01

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1468314130

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“A brisk and informative look at Major League Soccer’s first twenty years . . . West gives MLS fans a worthy chronicle.” (Booklist). In 1988, FIFA decreed that the 1994 World Cup would be played in the United States – with the condition that the U.S. would start a new professional league. The North American Soccer League had failed just four years prior, and the prospects of launching a new league for Americans, who didn’t share the rest of the world’s love for soccer, were both exciting and daunting. The United States of Soccer is the engaging history of Major League Soccer’s bootstrap origins prior to its 1996 launch, its near-demise in the early 2000s, and its surprising resilience and growth as it won recognition from soccer fans around the world. The book also explores the origin of MLS’s superfans who set the tone within MLS stadiums and defining what it is to be a North American soccer fan. Phil West chronicles those fans’ voices – intermingled with league officials, former players and coaches, journalists, and newspaper accounts – to detail MLS’s remarkable journey.



This Love Is Not for Cowards

Author : Robert Andrew Powell

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 42,83 MB

Release : 2012-02-28

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1608197174

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More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juárez has been hit hardest of all. And yet, more than a million people still live there. They even love their impoverished city, proudly repeating its mantra: "Amor por Juárez." Nothing exemplifies the spirit and hope of Juarenses more than the Indios, the city's beloved but hard-luck soccer team. Sport may seem a meager distraction, but to many it's a lifeline. It drew charismatic American midfielder Marco Vidal back from Dallas to achieve the athletic dreams of his Mexican father. Team owner Francisco Ibarra and Mayor José Reyes Ferriz both thrive on soccer. So does the dubiously named crew of Indios fans, El Kartel. In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this treacherous city just across the Rio Grande, and the moments of pain, longing, and redemption along the way. As he travels across Mexico with the team, Powell reflects on this struggling nation and its watchful neighbor to the north. This story is not just about sports, or even community, but the strength of humanity in a place where chaos reigns.



The Psychology of Passion

Author : Robert J. Vallerand

Publisher : Series in Positive Psychology

Page : 417 pages

File Size : 47,34 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0199777608

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In The Psychology of Passion, Robert J. Vallerand provides a complete presentation of the Dualistic Model of Passion and reports on the empirical evidence supporting the theory. Vallerand highlights the effects of two types of passion--harmonious and obsessive--on a number of psychological phenomena, such as cognition, emotions, performance, relationships, aggression, and violence.



How Soccer Works

Author : Keltie Thomas

Publisher : Maple Tree

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 10,94 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781897349007

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An overview of the game of soccer introduces famous players; presents the history of the game, including changes to the ball and cleats; discusses gear and how the field and weather can affect the game; and explores different kinds of players and moves.