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FC Barcelona - Het imperium
Cruijff, Messi en de onzekere toekomst van de grootste voetbalclub ter wereldFC Barcelona is de best verdienende voetbalclub ter wereld en ook een van de invloedrijkste. Met ongeveer 214 miljoen volgers op sociale media heeft Barça meer gemeen met grote multinationals dan met menig andere voetbalclub.Simon Kuper ontrafelt het geheim van dit Catelaanse miljoenenimperium, met speciale aandacht voor Johan Cruijff en Lionel Messi, de twee grootste sterren uit de clubgeschiedenis. Messi is sinds zijn dertiende een constante factor in het succes van de club geweest. Kan de club de topprestaties ook zonder hem prolongeren?Kuper sprak exclusief met tientallen medewerkers die er iedere dag alles aan doen om Barça aan de top te houden. Zijn meeslepende en persoonlijke portret laat zien dat FC Barcelona niet zomaar een voetbalclub is, maar een uniek sociaal, cultureel en politiek fenomeen.
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Impossible City
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Waterstones Best History Book of 2024 Pick 'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family's neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change. This century, Paris has globalised, gentrified, and been shocked into realising its role as the crucible of civilisational conflict. Sometimes it's a multicultural paradise, and sometimes it isn't. This decade, Parisians have lived through a sequence of shocks: terrorist attacks, record floods and heatwaves, the burning of Notre Dame, the storming of the city by gilets jaunes, and the pandemic. Now, as the Olympics come to town, France is busy executing the 'Grand Paris' project: the most serious attempt yet to knit together the bejewelled city with its neglected suburbs. This is a captivating memoir of today's Paris without the clichés.
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World Cup Fever
The story of how football transformed the world, told through nine World Cups - by one of our most talented football writers
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Football Against The Enemy
Simon Kuper's modern classic - 'If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it'. The Times
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Soccernomics (World Cup Edition)
'Magnificent... Freakonomics for football' - Guardian Football truly is the world's favourite game, followed in over 200 countries by hundreds of millions of people pouring their hearts and souls into supporting their chosen team every week. But behind the passion are questions that all true football aficionados want answered: has football spending spun out of control? How much do managers matter? Is hosting a World Cup a poisoned chalice? Fully revised and updated ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Soccernomics is the revolutionary guide from an economist and a sports writer who answer all these questions and more.
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Soccernomics
Why England Has Started to Win, Why Clubs Sign the Wrong Players and Why Billionaires Still Lose Money in Football'[Kuper and Szymanski] do for soccer what Moneyball did for baseball—put the game under an analytical microscope using statistics, economics, psychology, and intuition to try to transform a dogmatic sport.' New York Times
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Football Against The Enemy
30th Anniversary Edition of Simon Kuper's Modern Classic
€ 17,95 -
Barca
Barça is not just the world's most popular sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organisations on the planet. With almost 250 million followers on social media and 4 million visitors to its Camp Nou stadium each year, there's little wonder its motto is 'More than a club'. But it was not always so. In the past three decades, Barcelona has transformed from regional team to global powerhouse, becoming a model of sporting excellence and a consistent winner of silverware.Simon Kuper unravels exactly how these transformations took place. He outlines the organisational structure behind the club's business decisions, and details the work of its coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists who have revolutionised the sporting world. And, of course, he studies the towering influence of the club's two greatest legends, Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi.Like many leading global businesses, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting few outsiders a view behind the scenes. But, after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctum and to the people who strive daily to keep Barcelona at the top. Erudite, personal, and capturing all the latest successes and upheavals, his portrait of this incredible institution goes beyond football to understand Barça as a unique social, cultural, and political phenomenon."I began my research thinking I was going to be explaining Barca's rise to greatness, and I have, but I've also ended up charting the decline and fall."
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The Trillion Dollar Conman
Based on the hit BBC 5Live podcast series, The Trillion Dollar Conman is a tale of audacious international fraud that is stranger than fiction.In 2009, Notts County FC were struggling to survive in League Two when they were taken over by a mysterious company supposedly backed by the Bahrain royal family. The club was promised millions of pounds worth of investment and marquee players, including Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel, were signed by former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who had been appointed to take the club all the way to the Premier League.However, within months, the dream turned into a nightmare as it transpired that the club, the players and the fans had been duped by a convicted fraudster called Russell King.The world's oldest professional football club found itself at the centre of one of the most outlandish frauds in sporting history, which spanned the globe from Nottingham to North Korea, involving fake sheikhs, fast cars, broken promises and a trail of destruction.
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Moveable Feasts
A rising-star food writer takes us on a gastronomic adventure around Paris and its melting pot of cuisines
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States of Play
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Good Chaps
From the bestselling author of Chums, a powerful analysis of how corruption shapes British politics
€ 13,00