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Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the Us, Japan, Australia, Turkey-And Even Iraq-Are Dest

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the Us, Japan, Australia, Turkey-And Even Iraq-Are Dest

by SimonKuper (Author), StefanSzymanski (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

[Kuper and Szymanksi] 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. --The New York Times

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Nation Books
Published: May 2012
ISBN 10: 1568587015
ISBN 13: 9781568587011

Media Reviews
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2009



Daily Telegraph

If you're a football fan, I'll save you some time: read this book ... compulsive reading ... thoroughly convincing.



Observer

Szymanksi has recently published the best introduction to sports economics ... while Kuper is probably the smartest of the new generation of super-smart sportswriters ... fascinating stories.



Metro

[Kuper and Szymanski] basically trash every cliche about football you ever held to be true. It's bravura stuff ... the study of managers buying players and building a club is one you'll feel like photocopying and sending to your team's chairman



Paddy Harverson, former communications director of Manchester United, Financial Times

Demolishes ... many soccer shibboleths ... well argued, too. Szymanski, an economist, knows his stuff, and Kuper, a born contrarian and FT sports writer, is incapable of cliche ... great stories and previously unknown nuggets.



Sport Magazine

One for the thinkers



The Times

More thoughtful than most of its rivals and, by football standards, postively intellectual ... Kuper, a brilliantly contrary columnist, and Szymanski, an economics professor ... find plenty of fertile territory in their commendable determination to overturn the lazy preconceptions rife in football.



Prospect

Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski are a highly effective and scrupulously rational team, combining the former's detailed and nuanced understanding of European football with the latter's sophisticated econometric analysis. With a remarkable lightness of touch, they desmonstrate the limits of conventional thinking in football, as well as the real patterns of behaviour that shape sporting outcomes.
Author Bio
Simon Kuper's first book, Soccer Against the Enemy, won the William Hill Prize for sports book of the year in Britain. His second book, Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War, was shortlisted for the William Hill Prize and has been translated into six languages. Kuper writes a weekly sports column in the Financial Times, and previously written Soccer columns for the Times and in the Observer. He has been interviewed hundreds of times on radio about sports-and-society issues, and many times on television. In December 2007 he won the annual Manuel Vazquez Montalban prize for sportswriting, awarded by the Colegio de Periodistas de Catalunya and FC Barcelona's foundation. He lives in Paris, France.

Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Economics and MBA Dean at Cass Business School in London. Tim Harford has called him one of the world's leading sports economists. Stefan has a global reputation, and has published in the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Literature and Economic Journal. He has also co-authored two books: Winners and Losers: The Business Strategy of Football and National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer. His next book, Fans of the World; Unite!, co-authored with Steve Ross and dealing with the reform of US sports leagues, will be published by Stanford University Press in autumn 2008. He has acted as a consultant to government and to several major sports organizations, such as the FIA (motor sport), UEFA (football) and ICC (cricket). He lives in London, UK.