Soccer Death
An Introduction to Soccer
For many decades football has been one of the most popular sports in the world but there are still some who can not even follow the game. Do not be embarrassed, this is not a big deal, nor is it difficult to learn what the game is on, how he played and who or what is at stake. After reading this article, you’ll be able to feel much more comfortable to your son or daughter football match.
Firstly, the field in the standard regulation could be a little larger than you think. The length of the field may vary from 100 to 130 metres. The width varies from 50 to 100 metres. The lines at the end of each side of the field lines are called Goal, lines up the sides of the field lines and the coast line in the center of the field is called the mid field. Quite simple right?
Now, the ball can come in 3 different sizes: 3.4 and 5. Size 3 footballs are for small Tykes 8 years and younger. Size 4 bullets are for 8-12 years and the size 5 ball is for ages 13 and older crowd.
Then we have all the players. Each team is allowed not to have over 11 players each on the ground at any given time. In a basic configuration the player positions consists of a goalkeeper, 4 defenders, 3 and 3 mid defensive forward. Also on the playground during the referee is with its 2 assisstants either on the sidelines.
Now, the game length can be a little long. In a typical football match you will 2 45 half-minute with a break of 15 minutes at half time. This may be extended by the referee if there are prolonged injury during the game that require a stopage time.
Scoring in the game of football is easy to follow. Each objective is regarded as the point 1. So, whenever the opposing team draws a ball with something other than their weapons in order, he receives 1 point. If both teams are tied after regulation, they will be what we call the sudden death where the first team to score wins. Usually, will be 2 periods of the sudden death of 15 minutes each. Now, if neither team scores, then both teams will take penalty kicks. In this scenario, each team chooses 5 players to get a free shot at goal in the penalty box when the goalkeeper resides. This will follow until the team finds himself with more goals.
For the game of football at a glance. There are other aspects but it explicit and you should be able to come back on them while displaying your first match. Now, the next time you attend a match, you do not look foolish to ask many questions.
About the Author
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James White (Scottish footballer) $43.99 James White born August 21, 1899, date of death unknown, also known as Jimmy White or Tec White, is a former Scottish footballer who spent most of his career playing for Fall River Marksmen in the American Soccer League. He was born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.In 1920, White signed with Albion Rovers of the Scottish League. He helped Albion reach the final of the 1920 Scottish Cup where they lost to Kilmarnock. He spent two season with Albion before joining Maidstone United of the English Southern League in 1923. After one season with Maidstone, White transferred to Motherwell White was one of several players who were recruited from the Scottish League by Sam Mark to play for Fall River Marksmen. Others included Tommy Martin, also from Motherwell, Charlie McGill from Third Lanark and wing-half Bill McPherson from Beith. These players would become the backbone of the a very successful Marksmen team during the 1920s and early 1930s. In later seasons his team mates also included, among others, Billy Gonsalves, Bert Patenaude, Werner Nilsen and Alex McNab. |
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Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach $0.01 A “hilarious and utterly irreverent tale” (Irvine Welsh) of a year in the life of an abrasive pee-wee soccer coachGrowing up in Scotland, Alan Black learned that soccer was no mere game; it was a matter of life or death. In this harshly hilarious tale, Black, a Glasglow transplant living in suburban California, coaches the Dragons, a peewee team that proves an embarrassment to his beloved sport. They’re pampered. They’re soft. They’ve been told by their overprotective parents that (gasp!) “winning isn’t everything.” Using drills and bombast, Black attempts to whip the team into shape.Kick the Balls is a sidesplitting memoir of grass stains and free kicks, a no-holds-barred account of one man’s bafflement by an alien culture, and a stinging satire of American parenthood. Alan Black’s voice-howling from the sidelines-is that rare thing: a fresh, original, winning comic talent. |
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Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach $12.99 A “hilarious and utterly irreverent tale” (Irvine Welsh) of a year in the life of an abrasive pee-wee soccer coachGrowing up in Scotland, Alan Black learned that soccer was no mere game; it was a matter of life or death. In this harshly hilarious tale, Black, a Glasglow transplant living in suburban California, coaches the Dragons, a peewee team that proves an embarrassment to his beloved sport. They’re pampered. They’re soft. They’ve been told by their overprotective parents that (gasp!) “winning isn’t everything.” Using drills and bombast, Black attempts to whip the team into shape.Kick the Balls is a sidesplitting memoir of grass stains and free kicks, a no-holds-barred account of one man’s bafflement by an alien culture, and a stinging satire of American parenthood. Alan Black’s voice-howling from the sidelines-is that rare thing: a fresh, original, winning comic talent. |
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Londongrad: From Russia with Cash: The Inside Story of the Oligarchs $13.95 A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world’s best soccer players, and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich, this explosive book tells the tale of a group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs who made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism—and then came to London to enjoy their newfound wealth. From the origin of their journeys in Moscow and St. Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge, and Surrey, the book plunges into a shimmering world of audacious multibillion-pound deals, outrageous spending, and rancorous feuds. While London’s flashiest restaurants echoed with Russian laughter and Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, however, darker events were also playing themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London and the death—in a helicopter crash he all but predicted—of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain’s richest Russians, chilled London’s Russians and many who know them. This story of how Russia’s wealth was harvested and brought to London is a must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is created, the luxury it can buy, and the power and intrigue it produces. |
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Londongrad: From Russia with Cash: The Inside Story of the Oligarchs $4.15 A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world’s best soccer players, and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich, this explosive book tells the tale of a group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs who made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism—and then came to London to enjoy their newfound wealth. From the origin of their journeys in Moscow and St. Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge, and Surrey, the book plunges into a shimmering world of audacious multibillion-pound deals, outrageous spending, and rancorous feuds. While London’s flashiest restaurants echoed with Russian laughter and Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, however, darker events were also playing themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London and the death—in a helicopter crash he all but predicted—of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain’s richest Russians, chilled London’s Russians and many who know them. This story of how Russia’s wealth was harvested and brought to London is a must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is created, the luxury it can buy, and the power and intrigue it produces. |
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Los Angeles Rams Stadiums: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Coliseum is now primarily the home of the USC Trojan football team. During the recent stretch of its success in football, most of USC’s regular home games, especially the alternating games with rivals UCLA and Notre Dame, attract a capacity 92,000 person crowd, although they regularly drew far less during the 1990s. The current official capacity of the Coliseum is 93,607. The Coliseum Commission also rents the Coliseum to various events, including international soccer games, musical concerts and other large outdoor events. Celebrating their 50th anniversary in Los Angeles, the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox played an exhibition game here on March 29, 2008; a Los Angeles and MLB record for attendance was broken, where 115,300 people attended the game. On June 17, 2009, the Coliseum played host to the 2009 NBA World Champion Los Angeles Lakers as the end point of the championship parade. Player and coach speeches were given at the Coliseum following a procession that began at the Staples Center. The Olympic Cauldron (also known as the Olympic Torch) was built for the stadium’s two Olympic games. It is still lit during the fourth quarter of USC football games, and other special occasions (e.g., when the Olympics are being held in another city). At the Los Angeles Dodgers Fiftieth Anniversary Game on March 29, 2008, the torch was lit for the ThinkCure! charity ceremony, while Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” was played and the majority of the attendees turned on their complimentary souvenir keychain flashlights. In 2004, the cauldron was lit non-stop for seven days in tribute to President Ronald Reagan, who had died; and it was lit again in April 2005 following the death of Pope John… More: |
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My Ex Best Friend: A Novel of Suburbia $11.99 Journalist, wife, and mother of three, Claire Newman juggles work, soccer games, birthday parties, and errands. A successful writer at Nationweek, America’s second largest newsweekly, she makes her living by being, as she says, “a relentless snoop,” but she never was able to figure out why her best friend of twenty-three years, Lydia Finelli, dropped out of her life with no explanation. Claire hasn’t seen Lydia in five years, and her unresolved hurt and anger still linger, brought to the surface by a chance encounter at the local bakery. When Lydia calls Claire and asks for her help, urging her to come discuss the situation in person, Claire figures it is one of “life’s rare opportunities to tie up a loose end.”But when Claire arrives at Lydia’s house, she finds her ex-best friend dead. While all the obvious signs point to suicide, Claire can’t shake the feeling there’s something very wrong. The irrepressible, feisty Claire starts investigating, and soon the list of suspects includes Lydia’s neurologist husband, her psychiatrist neighbor, and even her son’s handsome soccer coach. As Claire uncovers the secrets of her friend’s past, and their relationship, the puzzle becomes even more complicated, and she finds that she really didn’t know Lydia very well at all.But knowledge comes with a price, and as Claire unravels the mystery of Lydia’s death, she puts herself — and the people she loves — in harm’s way. Smart and funny, with razor-sharp storytelling, My Ex-Best Friend is the debut of a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction. |
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N-Gage Games $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Puzzle Bobble, Civilization, Red Faction, Tomb Raider, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Call of Duty, Spider-Man 2, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Fifa Football 2005, Pandemonium, X-Men Legends, Colin Mcrae Rally, List of N-Gage Games, Driv3r, X-Men Legends Ii: Rise of Apocalypse, Sonic Advance, Worms World Party, Puyo Puyo, the Elder Scrolls Travels, Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, Super Monkey Ball, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Tiger Woods Pga Tour, Virtua Tennis, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm, Asphalt Urban Gt, the Sims Bustin’ Out, Sega Rally Championship, Virtua Cop, Rifts: Promise of Power, Mile High Pinball, Asphalt 4: Elite Racing, Snakes, Asphalt: Urban Gt 2, System Rush, Xanadu Next, Pocket Kingdom: Own the World, Operation Shadow, Ncaa Football 2004, Pathway to Glory, Ashen, Wwe Aftershock, One, Glimmerati, Warhammer 40,000: Glory in Death, Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer. Excerpt: Ashen Ashen is a supernatural horror-themed FPS developed exclusively for the N-Gage platform by Torus Games and published by Nokia on May 25, 2004. Story When Seven River City is plunged into chaos, stricken by storms and overcome with supernatural phenomena, Jacob Ward is filled with dread and despair, like most others. Yet Ward knows more about this catastrophe than most, and as its citizens flee, he must return to Seven River City and work to save it. Somewhere in that half-ruined darkness is his sister, a woman Ward believes is responsible for this disaster; a woman who warned him this would happenFeatures References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Asphalt Urban GT 2 Asphalt: Urban GT 2 is racing game developed and published by Gameloft for the Nintendo DS , N-Gage and Playstation Portable . A 2.5D Java ME version |
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Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy $9.99 Captain and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British soccer. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006–2007 season is an extraordinary tale of religious bigotry, life-threatening career injury, and tumultuous football success at club level. The first Northern Irish Roman Catholic to play for Celtic and to be chosen to captain his country, Lennon was sensationally forced to quit the captaincy even before he took the field following death threats by Loyalist paramilitaries. As he approaches the twilight of his playing career, Lennon has decided the time is right to reveal all about his life on the field—including his horrific spinal injury and his less than happy apprenticeships at Motherwell and Manchester City—as well as his hitherto closely guarded private life, including his battle with depression. |
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Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy $12.27 Captain and midfield enforcer for Northern Ireland, Neil Lennon is one of the most controversial figures in British soccer. His story, fully updated for the Celtic 2006–2007 season is an extraordinary tale of religious bigotry, life-threatening career injury, and tumultuous football success at club level. The first Northern Irish Roman Catholic to play for Celtic and to be chosen to captain his country, Lennon was sensationally forced to quit the captaincy even before he took the field following death threats by Loyalist paramilitaries. As he approaches the twilight of his playing career, Lennon has decided the time is right to reveal all about his life on the field—including his horrific spinal injury and his less than happy apprenticeships at Motherwell and Manchester City—as well as his hitherto closely guarded private life, including his battle with depression. |
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New Apostolic Church $8.41 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: For the American soccer player, see Michael Kraus. Michael KrausMichael Kraus (March 26, 1908 – November 16, 2003) was a Canadian entrepreneur and minister in the New Apostolic Church. Mihail Krauss was the eldest son of a tavern-owning farmer in Meeburg, a village of 950 German-speaking Lutheran Saxons in the Transylvania region of Romania. According to Canadian immigration records, in 1926, at age 18, he boarded the Canadian Pacific ship Minnedosa, and emigrated to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He often described his arrival saying, I had only ten cents in my pocket, didnt speak a word of English, didnt know a soul; not even the dogs barked at me. In the 1930s, he worked in a furniture factory by day. After hours he built apartments, beginning a life-long interest in real estate and construction. At some point his name was changed to Michael Kraus – it is not clear when this change occurred. In 1941, Michael Kraus began importing fabrics to Canada. In 1946 he formed a partnership to manufacture fabric. Initially adopting fabric looms to manufacture carpet, he founded Kraus Carpet Mills in 1959. A daring expansion into fibre extrusion, he founded Strudex Fibres in 1971. By his death in 2003, Kraus companies employed over 900 people at facilities across Canada, in the United States and in Australia. Michael Kraus joined the New Apostolic Church in 1932 and was ordained into the ministry one year later. Like other ministers in the New Apostolic Church, he served in a voluntary capacity, initially as an assistant local minister and later in various regional commissions. In 1955 he was ordained as an apostle and, in Zurich on June 21, 1958, he was ordained as a district apostle and national leader of the New Apostolic Church Can… More: |
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Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails $7.95 Based on an Inuit tale about the mystical aspects of the northern lights–the souls of the dead play soccer using a walrus head as the ball–the author tells about the death of a young girl’s mother, grieving, and rejoicing when watching the northern lights. Full color illustrations. |
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Ode to the Perfect Wife – A Lexie Lane Mystery $4.99 When Lexie Lane, the busy single mom of three young boys and her best friend Sue, discover the death by suicide of their friend Pamela, they immediately think that something ‘just isn’t right’. Pamela, the dutiful wife of very wealthy businessman Jeff Weston and devoted mother to 16 year old Amy and 11 year old Tony, had everything to live for. She had a handsome husband; two nice kids, a fabulous estate home and was well respected in the Marin County community where they all live. She was the Middle School PTA President, Soccer Team Mom and served on the Church Altar Guild. Furthermore, she was beautiful. Morning, noon or midnight, you could always find her dressed and groomed as though she had stepped right out of the pages of Vogue Magazine. Everything about her was just – well perfect. Perfect hair, perfect teeth, perfect figure, perfect house, and damn it, she was nice, too! Why would anyone like that want to kill herself?Lexie and Sue vow to find out what really happened, but have to fit it in between the frustrations of driving carpools, going on field trips, and seeing to the care of Lexie’s cranky aging mother. The inseparable friends find out that Pamela’s perfect life seemed to have more than just a few cracks. They discover a greedy ex-husband and an affair with the ‘boy toy’ gardener hidden in her past, and that the ‘perfect’ husband had just told her that he was leaving for another woman.In the meantime, Lexie’s already chaotic life is further complicated by the fact that she can’t live with her almost ex-husband, but can’t seem to live without him either. Lately though, she’s started to have feelings for her childhood friend, Police Detective Tom Bryant too, who just happens to be there whenever she stumbles into trouble. Lexie wonders if it’s really possible to be in love with two men at the same time? Probably not, but it sure is |
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Off Side $1.99 Paella, death and an English soccer player. |
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Off Side $14.95 Paella, death and an English soccer player. |
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Only a Game $16.95 It’s only a game, Bill Littlefield’s National Public Radio program tells us, trying to keep sports in perspective. And for all the deadly serious perspectives of sports commentators and fans, Littlefield’s is perhaps the most realistic. It is certainly the most entertaining. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, Littlefield’s take on the games people play is as refreshing as it is enlightening. From baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett’s untimely death, to pickup soccer games among misfit high-schoolers, to the most obscure nicknames and unusual mascots in college sports, the book collects memorable commentaries from Littlefield’s popular NPR sports show as well as never-before-published essays. No matter the topic, Littlefield illuminates the dark corners and unlikely angles of sports with wry good humor and a lightly worn expertise that lets nothing pass. |
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Please Don’t Go: Big John’s Journey Back to Life $6.73 In July 2009, former Celtic and Wales soccer star John Hartson was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which had also spread to his lungs and brain. But before his treatment even began, John came to the brink of death after contracting pneumonia, ceasing to breathe and undergoing emergency brain surgery. Against all the odds, he pulled through, and in Please Don’t Go he documents his incredible fight for life. Profoundly moving, John’s own story is interwoven with the poignant recollections of his pregnant wife, Sarah, as well as with extracts from his sister Victoria’s personal diary. This remarkable book covers the five-week period during which John’s survival was most in jeopardy. John’s truly inspirational account of how he has managed to overcome a very aggressive form of cancer will offer hope and courage to others affected by the disease. It is a touching and ultimately uplifting insight into the bravery of the popular football hero, who has fought back to full health in the face of adversity. |
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Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town $12.99 An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist’s correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman empire. After the story was published, the magazine was besieged with letters. This wasn’t war, the correspondents said; it was genocide. And the death toll was not half a million but three times that many. De Bellaigue was mortified. How had he gotten it so wrong? He went back to Turkey, but found that the national archives had sealed all documents pertaining to those times. Undeterred and armed with a stack of contraband histories, he set out to the conflicted southeastern Turkish city of Varto to discover what had really happened. There, de Bellaigue found a place in which the centuries-old conflict among Turks, Armenians, and Kurds was still very much alive. His government escort began their association by marching with him arm in arm through the town’s shopping district to show his presence; the local police chief, sent by the central office in Ankara to keep an eye on the Kurds, was sure he was a spy. He found houses built from the ruins of old Armenian churches, young boys playing soccer with old skulls, and a cast of villagers who all seemed unwilling to talk. What emerges is both an intellectual detective story and a reckoning with memory and identity that brings to life the basic conflictsof the Middle East: between statehood and religion, imperial borders and ethnic identity. Combining a deeply informed view of the area’s history with the testimonials of the townspeople who slowly come to trust him, de Bellaigue unravels the enigma of the Turkish twentieth century, |
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Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town $0.6 An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist’s correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman empire. After the story was published, the magazine was besieged with letters. This wasn’t war, the correspondents said; it was genocide. And the death toll was not half a million but three times that many. De Bellaigue was mortified. How had he gotten it so wrong? He went back to Turkey, but found that the national archives had sealed all documents pertaining to those times. Undeterred and armed with a stack of contraband histories, he set out to the conflicted southeastern Turkish city of Varto to discover what had really happened. There, de Bellaigue found a place in which the centuries-old conflict among Turks, Armenians, and Kurds was still very much alive. His government escort began their association by marching with him arm in arm through the town’s shopping district to show his presence; the local police chief, sent by the central office in Ankara to keep an eye on the Kurds, was sure he was a spy. He found houses built from the ruins of old Armenian churches, young boys playing soccer with old skulls, and a cast of villagers who all seemed unwilling to talk. What emerges is both an intellectual detective story and a reckoning with memory and identity that brings to life the basic conflictsof the Middle East: between statehood and religion, imperial borders and ethnic identity. Combining a deeply informed view of the area’s history with the testimonials of the townspeople who slowly come to trust him, de Bellaigue unravels the enigma of the Turkish twentieth century, |
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Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $29.95 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness. |
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Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $15 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness. |
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Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $28.95 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness. |
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Sidetracked (Kurt Wallander Series #5) $25 Detective Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where Sweden’s former minister of justice has been axed to death and scalped. The murder has the obvious markings of a demented serial killer, and Wallander is frantic to find him before he strikes again. But his investigation is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and the unshakably haunting preoccupation with the girl who set herself on fire. Fascinating and astute, Sidetracked is a compelling mystery enhanced by keen social awareness. |
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Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power $15.95 Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. For millions, it is a matter of life and death, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time, he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently.Soccer Against the Enemy introduces the remarkable variety of fans Kuper encountered along the way, from the East Berliner persecuted by the Stasi for supporting his local team, to the Argentine general with his own views on tactics. It also illuminates the frightening intersection between soccer and politics, particularly in the wake of the attacks of 9-11, where soccer is obsessed over by the likes of Osama bin Laden. The result is one of the world’s most acclaimed books on the game, and an astonishing study of soccer and its place in the world.With a new introduction on 2010′s World Cup. |
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Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power $15.95 Soccer is much more than just the most popular game in the world. For millions, it is a matter of life and death, an international lingua franca. Simon Kuper traveled to twenty-two countries to discover the sometimes bizarre effect soccer can have on politics and culture. At the same time, he tried to discover what makes different countries play a simple game so differently.Soccer Against the Enemy introduces the remarkable variety of fans Kuper encountered along the way, from the East Berliner persecuted by the Stasi for supporting his local team, to the Argentine general with his own views on tactics. It also illuminates the frightening intersection between soccer and politics, particularly in the wake of the attacks of 9-11, where soccer is obsessed over by the likes of Osama bin Laden. The result is one of the world’s most acclaimed books on the game, and an astonishing study of soccer and its place in the world.With a new introduction on 2010′s World Cup. |
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Solstice $4.11 On the longest day of the year, anything can happen…Sam Delaney has all she asks from life: a job and a place of her own arranged exactly the way she likes it. The death of her older brother, and her parents’ denial, have left her shaken and grateful her simple needs are being met. She’s not looking for the future—today is all she needs.It’s the last summer Emily MacKenzie will get to spend hanging out with friends, soaking up the sun and checking out the women on Seattle’s sporting fields. Come fall, she’s an assistant soccer coach with responsibilities. She’s planning on making every day of summer count.When their paths cross, Emily is surprised Sam remembers her. Years ago, they played soccer on the same high school team, only Sam was the star and Emily the new kid. Their youthful camaraderie had been simple, but under the warm Seattle sun, simple is the last word that describes their feelings.In this rich story of long days and hot nights, newcomer Kate Christie follows the collision course of two women during the summer that changes their lives. |
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Solstice $9.99 On the longest day of the year, anything can happen…Sam Delaney has all she asks from life: a job and a place of her own arranged exactly the way she likes it. The death of her older brother, and her parents’ denial, have left her shaken and grateful her simple needs are being met. She’s not looking for the future—today is all she needs.It’s the last summer Emily MacKenzie will get to spend hanging out with friends, soaking up the sun and checking out the women on Seattle’s sporting fields. Come fall, she’s an assistant soccer coach with responsibilities. She’s planning on making every day of summer count.When their paths cross, Emily is surprised Sam remembers her. Years ago, they played soccer on the same high school team, only Sam was the star and Emily the new kid. Their youthful camaraderie had been simple, but under the warm Seattle sun, simple is the last word that describes their feelings.In this rich story of long days and hot nights, newcomer Kate Christie follows the collision course of two women during the summer that changes their lives. |
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Spartak Moscow: The People’s Team in the Workers’ State $35 In the informative, entertaining, and generously illustrated Spartak Moscow, a book that will be cheered by soccer fans worldwide, Robert Edelman finds in the stands and on the pitch keys to understanding everyday life under Stalin, Khrushchev, and their successors. Millions attended matches and obsessed about their favorite club, and their rowdiness on game day stood out as a moment of relative freedom in a society that championed conformity. This was particularly the case for the supporters of Spartak, which emerged from the rough proletarian Presnia district of Moscow and spent much of its history in fierce rivalry with Dinamo, the team of the secret police. To cheer for Spartak, Edelman shows, was a small and safe way of saying “no” to the fears and absurdities of high Stalinism; to understand Spartak is to understand how soccer explains Soviet life.Champions of the Soviet Elite League twelve times and eleven-time winner of the USSR Cup, Spartak was founded and led for seven decades by the four Starostin brothers, the most visible of whom were Nikolai and Andrei. Brilliant players turned skilled entrepreneurs, they were flexible enough to constantly change their business model to accommodate the dramatic shifts in Soviet policy. Whether because of their own financial wheeling and dealing or Spartak’s too frequent success against state-sponsored teams, they were arrested in 1942 and spent twelve years in the gulag. Instead of facing hard labor and likely death, they were spared the harshness of their places of exile when they were asked by local camp commandants to coach the prisoners’ football teams. Returning from the camps after Stalin’s death, they took back the reins of a club whose mystique as the “people’s team” was only enhanced by its status as a victim of Stalinist tyranny. Edelman covers the team from its days on the wild fields of prerevolutionary Russia through the post-Soviet period. Given its history, it was hardly surprising that Spartak |
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Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic $13.95 Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic views sports and games with a speculative twist, in prophesied futures, parallel presents, and imagined pasts. From tennis matches with Death to chess games with Oberon, from free throws with the Fairy Court to surfing with werewolves, every sport imaginable (and a few unimaginable) exist within this speculative city of games. 42 authors, veterans and rookies alike, have contributed flash fiction and poetry that will take you from pong with a dust mote at the beginning of the world to sailboarding through the stars at the universe’s edge. Contributors include: Paul Abbamondi, Marge Simon, Robert Frazier, E. C. Myers, C. A. Gardner, James S. Dorr, Todd Wheeler, Deborah P Kolodji, Jude-Marie Green, Samantha Henderson, Roger Dutcher, Ruth Berman, Lawrence Schimel, Larry Hodges, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Rob Rosen, Andrew C. Ferguson, and 25 more. Sports & games covered: baseball, football, soccer, horseracing, figure skating, golf, cricket, Monopoly, bridge, and others. |
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St. John Of The Midfield $14.99 World-class soccer star Bobo Stoikov makes an escape from communist Bulgaria and finds his way to America. Landing a job as a youth soccer coach, Bobo builds a reputation for himself as a successful, yet unorthodox, coach who propels his team to the championship title.But things go far beyond the soccer field when arch rival Sonny Christopher seeks to destroy Bobo’s reputation, along with that of his best player and the player’s father, Mario. Before he realizes how serious the situation is, Bobo finds himself in sudden death and soon realizes there is more at stake than just a soccer game. “Maccagnone writes…with rhythm, perfect pace, pauses, the right degree of detail, well described settings, and well developed credible characters.” – Christian Mcallister, Rambles Fiction Review”The reader is kept on the edge of their seat from the beginning, with a daring jump from a train. Look for this book to win an award.” – Mark F. Traupman, Author, Jesus – The Lost MessageGarasamo Maccagnone has enjoyed writing since the age of sixteen. He is inspired by the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and Jack London, and is currently working on his next book, The Fish and the Fox. Garasamo has owned a soccer club and coached and trained players for over twenty years. He lives with his wife, Vicki, and his three children, Garrett, Anthony and Sophia, in Shelby Township, Michigan, where his daughter plays soccer for the Michigan Gators. |
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The Demise Of The Soccer Moms $6.99 A seemingly quiet suburban neighborhood is upended when a provocative single mother saunters onto the school playground for the first time. Her Doc Marten boots, tight T-shirts, and in-your-face attitude stir up buried fears and sexual anxiety.In the dark corners of her home, a woman battles crippling memories that threaten to destroy the family she wants so desperately to protect. A suspicious death forces her best friend to make a hard choice between marriage and friendship.Paranoia, jealousy, and maternal instinct collide, leading to the demise of the soccer moms.Suburban Noir – where the mundane is menacing. |
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The Heir Chronicles Box Set $15.85 Three boys, three talismans, one destiny. In this page-turning trilogy, Cinda Williams Chima explores what it means to be different, what’s worth fighting for, and what’s worth dying for…THE WARRIOR HEIR Jack lives an unremarkable life in Trinity, Ohio. Only his daily medicine and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from other teenagers at his high school. Until one day, Jack skips his medicine and finds himself stronger, fiercer, and more confident than ever before. He feels incredible – until he nearly kills another player on the soccer field.Soon, Jack learns the startling truth: he is Weirlind, part of a magical underground society of wizards, warriors, and enchantors. Weir’s mighty, feuding houses of the Red Rose and the White Rose determine power through The Game, a modern-day gladiator battle in which warriors from each house fight to the death. The winning house rules the Weir. But Jack finds out that he’s not just another member of Weirlind—he’s one of the last warriors—and both houses are scouting for a player.THE WIZARD HEIRSixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. Unfortunately it’s not his attitude that’s the problem. It’s the trail of magical accidents—lately, disasters—that follow in his wake. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained—and now that the only person who could protect him has died, his powers are escalating out of control. At the Havens, a secluded boys’ school in Maine, Seph meets headmaster Gregory Leicester, who promises to initiate him into his order of wizards. But Seph soon learns that training comes at a steep cost, and that Leicester plans to use his students’ powers to serve his own malicious agenda. This wizard war is one that Seph may not have the strength to survive.THE |
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The Warrior Heir (Heir Series #1) $0.01 Before he knew about the Roses, 16-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from the other high-schoolers. Then one day Jack skips his medicine. Suddenly, he is stronger, fiercer, and more confident than ever before. And it feels great—until he loses control of his own strength and nearly kills another player during soccer team tryouts.Soon, Jack learns the startling truth about himself: He is Weirlind; part of an underground society of magical people who live among us. At the head of this magical society sit the feuding houses of the Red Rose and the White Rose, whose power is determined by playing The Game—a magical tournament in which each house sponsors a warrior to fight to the death. The winning house rules the Weir. As if his bizarre magical heritage isn’t enough, Jack finds out that he’s not just another member of Weirlind—he’s one of the last of the warriors—at a time when both houses are scouting for a player. |
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The Warrior Heir (Heir Series #1) $8.99 Before he knew about the Roses, 16-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from the other high-schoolers. Then one day Jack skips his medicine. Suddenly, he is stronger, fiercer, and more confident than ever before. And it feels great—until he loses control of his own strength and nearly kills another player during soccer team tryouts.Soon, Jack learns the startling truth about himself: He is Weirlind; part of an underground society of magical people who live among us. At the head of this magical society sit the feuding houses of the Red Rose and the White Rose, whose power is determined by playing The Game—a magical tournament in which each house sponsors a warrior to fight to the death. The winning house rules the Weir. As if his bizarre magical heritage isn’t enough, Jack finds out that he’s not just another member of Weirlind—he’s one of the last of the warriors—at a time when both houses are scouting for a player. |
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Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup $0.99 The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup features original pieces by thirty-two leading writers and journalists about the thirty-two nations that have qualified for the world’s greatest sporting event. In addition to all the essential information any fan needs—the complete 2006 match schedule, results from past tournaments, facts and figures about the nations, players, teams, and referees—here are essays that shine a whole new light on soccer and the world. Former Foreign Minister of Mexico Jorge G. Castañeda invites George W. Bush to watch a game. Novelist Robert Coover remembers soccer in Spain after the death of General Francisco Franco. Dave Eggers on America, and the gym teachers who kept it free from communism. Time magazine’s Tokyo bureau chief Jim Frederick shows how soccer is displacing baseball in Japan. Novelist Aleksandar Hemon proves, once and for all, that sex and soccer do not mix. Novelist John Lanchester describes the indescribable: the beauty of Brazilian soccer. The New Yorker’s Cressida Leyshon on Trinidad and Tobago, 750-1 underdogs. Fever Pitch author Nick Hornby on the conflicting call of club and country. Plus an afterword by Franklin Foer on the form of government most likely to win the World Cup. |
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Vampire Ghost $1.99 What happens when a vampire dies? Harry “Dead Baby” Wilson is about to find out… Turned at the age of 13, Harry spends 84 years wandering the earth feeding off the living and playing soccer. And then one morning he dies—again—in a horrible fire.But Harry soon discovers that death isn’t the end of the story. He comes to realize that he’s still… something. No longer human, no longer vampire, he has somehow now become a vampire ghost. Which is pretty lame. At first. But then Harry discovers that he can slip inside people for brief periods of time. He gets to “live” again, play soccer again. And possibly most importantly, taste real food again. Then one day, Harry meets Aubrey. Upset because her father is in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, Aubrey’s world has turned upside down. And for the first time in 84 years, Harry wants to help someone. Will Harry “Dead Baby” Wilson be able to save Aubrey and her father with the limited powers of a vampire ghost? “Vampire Ghost” is a story to die for–over and over and over again! |
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Woodridge Wanderers: The Birth and Death of a Soccer Team $3.99 In this hilarious satirical fantasy a travelling circus has a gruesome road accident in which the owner and ringmaster receives a head injury that ends his career when he can no longer wear a ringmaster’s hat. Wanting to stay in the entertainment industry, he applies for and gets the position of Manager of Woodridge Wanderers, the local professional soccer team.He gets rid of all the existing players and installs his circus performers in their place, even though none had previously played competitive soccer. The performers quickly showed they posessed unique skills that lent themselves well to the game. For example, the ape trainer became a superb goalkeeper, diverting shots while swinging one-handed from the crossbar, munching bananas; and the two-headed man was irresistible when the ball was in the air. In some cases the injuries the performers had sustained provided an advantage. The tall man had lost a foot, receiving a gorilla’s foot as replacement, but one leg was now substantially shorter than the other producing an ability to turn very quickly.The unlikely group became the best soccer team in England and were universally admired but their home stadium in Woodridge was always half empty. Until one day, one of the players was evaporated in the middle of a game by what appeared to be a nuclear missile. This was a turning point for the team as the locals began to take notice. But the bizarre deaths had to continue to sustain the interest.The book follows the exploits of the team and whoever was determined to kill them off; the comical efforts of the police to find the murderer(s); the press campaign against the latest escalation in soccer crowd violence; and the socialchanges occurring in Woodridge as a result of the town’s new-found fame. |
