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  • Fútbol simple
    Evelina Cabrera / Mariela Viola
    Aprender, jugar, enseñar y divertirse, todo en un solo libro. Esta es la guía definitiva para descubrir que el fútbol es mucho más simple y divertido de lo que parece. Destinado a los más jóvenes que quieren aprender las técnicas del deporte de forma lúdica y entretenida, este libro también es una herramienta indispensable para aquellos que, sin ser profesionales, desean enseña...
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    30,68 €

  • Motorsport Circuits Explained
    Etienne Psaila
    A race track is more than a strip of asphalt. It is a designed sporting environment where speed becomes drama. Motorsport Circuits Explained reveals how corners, elevation changes, braking zones, kerbs, banking, run-off areas, pit lanes, weather, and surface grip shape the way races unfold. From the slow theatre of hairpins to the courage of fast corners, from Monaco’s walls to...
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    21,04 €

  • The Trotters’ Long Road
    Etienne Psaila
    From church roots in Victorian Bolton to founding-member status in the Football League, from the White Horse Final of 1923 to the golden FA Cup years, from Burnden Park glory and tragedy to Nat Lofthouse, Premier League ambition, European nights, financial crisis, rescue, and renewal, The Trotters’ Long Road tells the full story of one of English football’s most resilient clubs...
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    20,99 €

  • UEFA
    Paul Davies
    For over a hundred years, Europe has told its story through football. From scrappy early‑century kickabouts to the global theatre of the Champions League, the sport has mirrored the continent’s victories, tensions, and transformations. UEFA: A History of European Football delivers the definitive account of that journey-a fast‑moving, cinematic narrative of how the world’s simpl...
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    17,60 €

  • The Art of Overtaking
    Etienne Psaila
    Overtaking is one of motor racing’s most thrilling sights, but a clean pass is never just a flash of bravery. It is the result of timing, geometry, grip, machinery, strategy, and judgement working together at speed. The Art of Overtaking: Bravery, Geometry, Grip, and Timing in Racing is a fact-based, narrative study of how passes are made, defended, lost, judged, and remembered...
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    22,13 €

  • VAR, Goal-Line Technology, and the Modern World Cup
    Etienne Psaila
    Football was once judged almost entirely by the referee’s eye, the assistant’s flag, and the authority of the whistle. Then came the replays, the controversies, the disputed goals, the missed handballs, the offside arguments, and the World Cup moments that refused to fade from memory. VAR, Goal-Line Technology, and the Modern World Cup: How Football Learned to Judge Itself tell...
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    20,59 €

  • The Host Nations
    Etienne Psaila
    The World Cup is never only about football. Every host nation uses the tournament to present itself to the world: through stadiums, ceremonies, cities, culture, politics, architecture, hospitality, memory and ambition. The Host Nations: How Countries Use the World Cup to Tell Their Story is a fact-based narrative history of how countries have staged football’s greatest tourname...
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    23,76 €

  • The World Cup Debutants
    Etienne Psaila
    Every World Cup nation has a first day. Some arrive quietly and leave quickly. Some score once and create a memory that lasts for generations. Some shock champions, reach quarter-finals, or transform the way the world sees their football. The World Cup Debutants: First Appearances, First Goals, and Nations Arriving on the Global Stage tells the fact-based story of countries ste...
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    19,94 €

  • Football Positions Explained
    Etienne Psaila
    Football is often described through familiar labels: goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, winger, striker. Yet behind those simple words lies a constantly evolving tactical world shaped by formations, coaching, athletic development, pressing, positional play, and the changing demands of the modern game. Football Positions Explained: Goalkeepers, Full-Backs, Midfielders, Wingers, S...
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    19,69 €

  • Who Will Win the 2026 World Cup?
    Etienne Psaila
    Who will win the 2026 World Cup? For the first time, football’s greatest tournament expands to forty-eight teams, three host nations, a new round of 32, and a wider field of contenders, outsiders, debutants, and dangerous dark horses. Who Will Win the 2026 World Cup? is an independent, research-led forecast of the tournament before the first whistle blows. Blending AI-assisted ...
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    20,50 €

  • The World Cup Managers
    Etienne Psaila
    The World Cup is won by players, but it is shaped by managers. Behind every famous goal, every tactical revolution, every final, and every national heartbreak stands a coach making decisions that can define careers and countries. The World Cup Managers: Tactics, Pressure, Dressing Rooms, and Decisions That Changed History tells the story of the men on the touchline who shaped f...
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    22,17 €

  • Baby Boomer Baseball Volume II
    Robert Kravetz
    Mantle swings and that ball is gone and is still raising! I think it is out of Yankee Stadium! Oh my God, it hit the façade with a thud just below the top of the façade!'When I heard the Yankee game announcer screaming these words, in May of 1963, I sat on my bed in tears of awe. The ball caromed off the façade nearly 400 feet away and soared almost 120 feet high, with an ech...
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    20,73 €

  • The World Cup Golden Boot
    Etienne Psaila
    The World Cup is remembered through champions, finals, shocks, and national glory, but one of its sharpest individual dramas belongs to the goalscorer. The World Cup Golden Boot: Goalscorers, Pressure, Penalties, and Tournament Immortality tells the complete story of the players who turned short tournaments into lasting football history by finishing above everyone else in the r...
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    23,46 €

  • Penalty Kings and Broken Hearts
    Etienne Psaila
    The penalty shootout is football’s most dramatic invention: simple in form, brutal in consequence, and unforgettable in memory. Penalty Kings and Broken Hearts: The World Cup Shootout Story tells the fact-based history of the World Cup’s greatest shootout moments, from the first tournament shootout in 1982 to the unforgettable Argentina-France final in 2022. This narrative hist...
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    20,59 €

  • The World Cup Final
    Etienne Psaila
    The World Cup Final: Every Decider, Every Era, Every Legacy is a fact-based narrative history of football’s greatest single match: the final of the FIFA World Cup. From Uruguay’s 1930 victory in Montevideo to Argentina and France’s unforgettable 2022 decider in Lusail, this book follows every era of the final through the players, managers, stadiums, goals, tactical changes, con...
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    20,55 €

  • Underdogs of the World Stage
    Etienne Psaila
    International football has always belonged to more than its giants. Beyond the famous champions and traditional powers are the nights when smaller nations, first-time qualifiers, underestimated squads, and unlikely contenders forced the world to remember their names. Underdogs of the World Stage: Small Nations, Big Nights, and Football’s Greatest Surprises tells the fact-based ...
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    23,80 €

  • The Stadium Book
    Etienne Psaila
    Football stadiums are more than places where matches are played. They are living public spaces where noise, memory, architecture, identity, safety, economics, television, transport, politics, and belonging all meet on matchday. The Stadium Book: How Football Grounds Shape Noise, Memory, Identity, and Belonging is a fact-based narrative history of the football ground, from early...
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    23,70 €

  • The History of FIFA
    Paul Davies
    For nearly a century, the FIFA World Cup has stood as the most powerful cultural event on Earth - a spectacle that has united nations, shaped identities, and produced moments of drama and beauty that echo across generations. From the dusty streets of Montevideo in 1930 to the vast stadiums of North America in 2026, the tournament has mirrored the triumphs and tensions of the mo...
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    14,39 €

  • Abrindo o jogo
    Sergio Cohn
    Entre 1969 e 1993, o futebol brasileiro viveu algumas de suas maiores glórias, contradições e transformações. Abrindo o jogo: grandes entrevistas do futebol brasileiro (1969-1993) reúne conversas históricas com alguns dos maiores nomes do esporte nacional, revelando não apenas os bastidores das quatro linhas, mas também os conflitos políticos, culturais e humanos que marcaram u...
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    23,40 €

  • The 48-Team Era
    Etienne Psaila
    The 48-Team Era: How Football’s Biggest Tournament Changed Forever is an independent, fact-based narrative history of the most significant structural change in the modern men’s World Cup. From the long-established 32-team format to the expanded 48-team model, this book explains how football’s biggest tournament was reshaped by global participation, qualification politics, broad...
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    22,20 €

  • North American Football Culture
    Etienne Psaila
    North American Football Culture: How the 2026 Finals Meet Three Host Nations is a fact-based narrative exploration of the first men’s world football finals shared by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. More than a tournament preview, this book examines how the 2026 finals meet three very different football cultures: Mexico’s deep World Cup memory, the United States’ expandin...
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    22,17 €

  • The History of Football
    Paul Davies
    The History of Football charts the extraordinary journey of the nation’s favourite sport from its unruly medieval origins to its place at the heart of global culture. Moving through centuries of change, it reveals how chaotic folk games played in village streets evolved into the codified, tactical, and fiercely competitive sport that would come to define English identity. From ...
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    17,65 €

  • Voittamaton
    Viljo Kojo
    Hiljaisuus laskeutuu stadionille, kun urheilijat kokoontuvat pohjoisen taivaan alle, heidän hengityksensä näkyy kylmässä ilmassa - jokainen kilpailija kantaa kansakuntansa toiveiden painoa. Tässä vaikuttavassa kuvauksessa Suomen olympiahistoriasta kilpailun jännitys rinnastuu hiljaiseen, periksiantamattomaan voimaan nimeltä sisu, ominaisuuteen, joka on määrittänyt suomalaisten ...
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    17,41 €

  • The Lost Games
    Michael Mullen
    Before stadiums, scoreboards, referees, and modern rules, human beings played games that could honor gods, train warriors, settle rivalries, entertain kings, risk lives, and turn whole cities into roaring crowds.The Lost Games uncovers the forgotten world of ancient sports, dangerous races, sacred contests, brutal spectacles, ritual ball games, royal trials, village chaos, boar...
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    21,94 €

  • The Lost Games
    Michael Mullen
    Before stadiums, scoreboards, referees, and modern rules, human beings played games that could honor gods, train warriors, settle rivalries, entertain kings, risk lives, and turn whole cities into roaring crowds.The Lost Games uncovers the forgotten world of ancient sports, dangerous races, sacred contests, brutal spectacles, ritual ball games, royal trials, village chaos, boar...
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    17,91 €

  • Championship Rounds (Round 6)
    Bernard Fernandez
    Renowned sportswriter and Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee, Bernard Fernández releases his sixth book in the Championship Round series with a Foreword by J Russell Peltz, president of Peltz Boxing Promotions and author of Thirty Dollars and a Cut Eye.'Bernard Fernandez has been a great boxing writer for decades, but his expertise and mastery of a variety of topics makes this anthol...
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    15,09 €

  • Fight Night
    Gigi Romano
    From ancient wrestling contests and Greek pankration to bare-knuckle prizefighting, Olympic boxing, Muay Thai stadiums, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, modern mixed martial arts, and the global pay-per-view age, Fight Night: The History of Boxing and Combat Sports tells the sweeping story of humanity’s oldest competitive test: controlled combat. This fact-based narrative traces how fighti...
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    24,39 €

  • Net Gains
    Gigi Romano
    Tennis began as a game of courts, clubs, lawns, and rituals, but it grew into one of the world’s most recognisable sporting cultures. Net Gains: The Rise of Tennis in Sporting Culture tells the fact-based story of how tennis evolved from medieval handball games and royal court traditions into a global professional sport shaped by Grand Slam championships, national rivalries, te...
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    24,45 €

  • Fast Water
    Gigi Romano
    Competitive swimming is one of the purest tests in sport: a body, a lane, a clock, and the relentless resistance of water. Yet behind every race lies a vast history of survival skill, organised clubs, Olympic ambition, national systems, scientific training, technological change, and the constant pursuit of faster times. Fast Water: The Story of Competitive Swimming tells the fu...
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    20,58 €

  • On the Mat
    Gigi Romano
    From ancient tomb paintings and Olympic arenas to village festivals, sumo stables, college wrestling rooms, lucha libre masks, professional wrestling television, and modern world championships, On the Mat: The History of Wrestling tells the global story of one of humanity’s oldest physical contests. This fact-based narrative follows wrestling across civilisations, continents, a...
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    23,78 €