
Soccer Stars on the Pitch
Biographies of Today’s Best Players
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Tanya Keith
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From the street to the stadium - inspiring stories of soccer’s greatest players.
Find the inspiration you need to be the best soccer player you can be with these sports biographies! Soccer Stars on the Pitch goes deep and explores the lives and careers of some of the sport’s most famous players.
Soccer (or, as it’s known outside the US, football) is the most popular sport in the world and is filled with all kinds of exciting stories that you’re sure to love. From French stopper Hugo Lloris to American captain Christian Pulisic, these sports biographies show you how these amazing athletes made tough choices, overcame injuries, and blew past every other obstacle that got in their way!
This compelling collection of sports biographies includes:
- Playmakers in every position - Assemble a real soccer dream team across 11 complete sports biographies - and get shorter spotlights on plenty of other world-class players.
- Tons of fun facts - Expand your soccer knowledge as you learn about everything from the action-packed pitch (that’s the field you play on) to the 12th man (the big fans like you!).
Goal! Score big with these incredible sports biographies!
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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No one can touch Bart Starr's record setting 5 NFL Championships including 3 straight. America's Quarterback tells the story of the man who helped create the legend of Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers. This biography traces Starr’s life from childhood in Alabama to stardom in Green Bay and beyond. Not a simple sports story, Dunnavant traces the story of one man reaching for the American dream while professional football emerged from the shadows to capture the nation’s imagination.
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- De Anthony nyman en 03-30-15
De: Keith Dunnavant
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Raise a Fist, Take a Knee
- Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
- De: John Feinstein, Doug Williams
- Narrado por: John Feinstein
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for. With an encyclopedic knowledge of professional sports, and shrewd cultural criticism, John Feinstein uncovers not just why, but how, pro sports continue to perpetuate racial inequality.
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Another Feinstein triumph
- De Glenn Canning en 12-06-21
De: John Feinstein, y otros
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Barca
- The Making of the Greatest Team in the World
- De: Graham Hunter
- Narrado por: Graham Hunter
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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Barcelona is the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation, and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the untold inside story of how the best and most loved football team in the world came to redefine how the game is played. We start with the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley, the game that ended the debate about whether Barcelona was the greatest team in the world and began a new one: are they the best ever?
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In-depth analysis of the greatest team ever
- De Michalis Petrou en 01-09-18
De: Graham Hunter
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Overtime
- Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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For the past year, John U. Bacon has received unprecedented access to Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising?
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Good story.... but
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-19
De: John U. Bacon
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Boys Among Men
- How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
- De: Jonathan Abrams
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college - as young basketball prodigies were expected to do - but instead would enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage basketball players to head straight for the pros. That trend would continue until the NBA instituted an age limit in 2005, requiring all players to attend college or another developmental program for at least one year.
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Bad pronunciation
- De K. Spearman en 07-03-16
De: Jonathan Abrams
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A Giant Win
- Inside the New York Giants' Historic Upset over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
- De: Tom Coughlin, Greg Hanlon - contributor, Eli Manning - foreword
- Narrado por: Donald Corren, Tom Coughlin
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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In A Giant Win, Coach Tom Coughlin reveals the intricacies of football, sharing details only a coach would know. He also details relationships with some of the most iconic players from the Giants, including Eli Manning and Michael Strahan. A Giant Win provides a frame for Coach Coughlin to discuss his life in football—including his years with the Giants as an assistant coach in the late 1980s and 1990, when he helped win a Super Bowl working under Hall of Fame Head Coach Bill Parcells and alongside the coach he’d oppose in Super Bowl XLII: Bill Belichick.
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Love Coach Coughlin Story
- De Alison en 02-29-24
De: Tom Coughlin, y otros
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Got to Give the People What They Want
- True Stories and Flagrant Opinions from Center Court
- De: Jalen Rose
- Narrado por: Jalen Rose
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Jalen Rose has never been quiet. Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the '70s and '80s. Not as the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary "Fab Five" at the University of Michigan. Not as the player under the stewardship of Hall of Famers Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and others throughout his 13-year NBA career. And certainly not as a commentator and analyst on ABC/ESPN and Grantland.
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Amazing book - a MUST download / read
- De Terry en 10-08-15
De: Jalen Rose
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From Darkness to Dynasty
- The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots
- De: Jerry Thornton
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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From Darkness to Dynasty tells the unlikely history of the New England Patriots as it has never been told before. From their humble beginnings as a team bought with rainy-day money by a man who had no idea what he was doing, to the fateful season that saw them win their first Super Bowl, Jerry Thornton shares the wild, humiliating, unbelievable, and wonderful stories that comprised the first 40 years of what would ultimately become the most dominant franchise in NFL history.
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great narration, great book
- De BenRias en 01-25-18
De: Jerry Thornton
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Glory Days
- The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever
- De: L. Jon Wertheim
- Narrado por: Chris Abell
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN’s rise to media dominance as the country’s premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird’s rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner.
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A great sports summer
- De Hebern en 07-06-21
De: L. Jon Wertheim
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The Playbook
- 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
- De: Kwame Alexander
- Narrado por: Ruffin Prentiss
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for ourselves? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? The Playbook is intended to provide inspiration for kids ages 10 and up to help them succeed on and off the court.
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GREAT!!
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-18
De: Kwame Alexander
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Dabo's World
- The Life and Career of Coach Swinney and the Rise of Clemson Football
- De: Lars Anderson
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Dabo's World and learn about how Dabo Swinney used his energy, faith, and determination to turn the Clemson Tigers into a football powerhouse.
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Very Basic Retelling
- De Colonel en 12-31-22
De: Lars Anderson
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Strokes of Genius
- Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played
- De: L. Jon Wertheim
- Narrado por: Edward Bauer
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Center Court was a stage set worthy of Shakespearean drama. Five-time champion Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in the history of the game. He just needed to cling to his trajectory. So in the last few moments of daylight, Center Court witnessed a coronation. Only it wasn't a crowning for the Swiss heir apparent but for a swashbuckling Spaniard.
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Behind the scenes of the greatest match An absolute must for a tennis fan
- De Cliente Amazon en 12-28-24
De: L. Jon Wertheim