How to watch soccer like a genius : what architects, stuntwomen, paleoanthropologists, and computer scientists reveal about the world's game
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Abrams Press,
New York :
2026.
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About
"On the surface, soccer seems like the simplest of games: You kick a ball down a field that hasn't changed in a century, past a lone goalie, and into a net. Then you celebrate with a signature move and your delirious teammates mob you. Soccer is the first team sport for little kids for a reason. But the closer you look, the more you plumb the game's history, the more infinitely complex the picture becomes. Nick Greene, author of the celebrated How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius, is a man who knows how to look closer than most, especially when he pulls in a wide range of experts to help. In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theorist, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, and an Anglican priest to explain schisms-how American football, soccer, and rugby could all develop from the field games of rowdy 19th century British schoolboys. Greene delves deep into what defines the game, how it developed, and what happens during a match's 90 minutes (and then some). With insight from a domino toppler, a developmental neuroscientist, an art historian, a civil engineer, and more, you'll never look at soccer the same way again."--
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- ISBN: 9781419777172
- Physical Description: xvii, 254 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Abrams Press, 2026.
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