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El Futbol Es Asi! (Soccernomics): Una Explicacion Economica Sobre Los Mitos Y Verdades Del DePorte = Football Is So! (Soccernomics) (2009)

by Simon Kuper(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8492452528 (ISBN13: 9788492452521)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Empresa Activa

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 for selecting players, team revenue streams, player development. Overall, though, I enjoy the writing and found the book informative.
review 2: Pretty solid. It's basically what you'd expect: like Moneyball or Freakonomics but with soccer. There are a few chapters that are significantly more interesting than the others - the chapter on the correlation between sporting losses and suicides is particularly interesting, as is the chapter on whether or not World Cups are beneficial for the ho... morest countries - but overall, pretty interesting.It's part of this growing trend to introduce big data to everything, and while I think the trend in general is a good thing, I also feel the need to point out that while economists are very good at making quantitative judgments - showing, for example, that communities don't actually recoup their investments from stadiums - they aren't as good at making qualitative, moral judgments. Not that I think anything the writers of Soccernomics (this comment is aimed as much at Freakonomics as it is at this book) suggest is blatantly immoral, but economics is an amoral field, and while it does a great job at shattering myths and misconceptions, economics can only really serve as a starting point for debating the morality of a situation. Data isn't a moral entity, it's just data, and efficiency in itself isn't necessarily a moral concept. less

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Lileto

This is a totally fascinating book which demystifies the "beautiful game". This year's World Cup - with 4 teams from the heart of EUrope in the quarter finals and Brazil v. Germany in tonight's semi-final - strongly reinforces the authors' theses. Read this in conjunction with Jim Bullivant's "Football is Fixed" website and the scales will fall from your eyes. On the other hand, it might be more fun just to enjoy the illusion instead.

lrr43849

As informative a book as I've ever read. I read this book as a stereotypical American newbie to the world of soccer, ignorant but interested. Since then, Soccernomics has been the foundation of a love affair with the game. Soccer's economics are so much different than the major professional sports in the United States, and Soccernomics makes you an expert, capable of critical thinking, in the business of the beautiful game.

pravee

Maravilloso.

kateypoo14

Amazing

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