Books by Simon Kuper
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review 1: Kuper is a Dutch soccer journalist who has compiled a huge set of profiles of the most influential players and managers of the past 30 years or so. Some of the profiles are pretty out of date, so some have short updates appended to them. It was pretty interesting to find out wh...
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review 1: I started this book because I read a piece about Chelsea-United penalty incident which was quite interesting. (around 2-3 pages)The rest of the book is incredibly boring. They keep saying the same things over and over again. What did they think, they were writing a textbook to he...
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review 1: I'd like to give this 2.5 stars, since just 2 seems overly harsh and I want to put in right in the middle of the spectrum. I jumped on this book because I had just finished (and loved) Soccernomics, but I didn't enjoy this one as much. At times I felt like I was expected to alrea...
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review 1: i think is gonna be good
review 2: Interesting, fascinating and at times a tad boring as well. Football from another view point.
review 2: Interesting, fascinating and at times a tad boring as well. Football from another view point.
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review 1: This is Moneyball + Freakonomics applied to soccer - a good book to read during the World Cup. Overall interesting, though I skimmed some of the math and models because it was making my eyes glaze over. I don't agree with the authors' conclusions about everything though.Large p...
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review 1: This is a well written answer to several questions about success and failure in soccer. The work falls nicely into the class of popular economics pieces by Gladwell, Dubner, et al. I am a soccer newbie and would have appreciated some information on basics such as the process fo...