Simon Kuper Bücher

Das englische Fußballmagazin 'FourFourTwo' wählte es zum 'besten Fußballbuch aller Zeiten', und andere Kritiker waren nicht weniger euphorisch. 'Faszinierend und erfrischend' schwärmte der 'Guardian', 'scharfsinnig und äußerst unterhaltsam ' die 'Financial Times', 'überschäumend und witzig' der 'Independent', und die 'Times' riet: 'Sollten Sie Fußball mögen, lesen Sie es. Sollten Sie Fußball nicht mögen, lesen Sie es.' Simon Kuper gelang mit seinem 'Football against the enemy' ein ganz großer Wurf. Es wurde in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt – und erscheint in aktualisierter Fassung nun endlich auch auf Deutsch. Kuper bereist u. a. Berlin, Moskau, Brasilien, trifft interessante Protagonisten und lässt sich erzählen, was der Fußball fürs menschliche Miteinander so alles aus- und anzurichten vermag. Seine grandios geschriebenen, witzigen Reportagen beginnen in den neunziger Jahren mit der brisanten deutschholländischen Fußballrivalität – und enden 2008 beim gleichen Thema, nun aber deutlich entspannter. Denn inzwischen hat der einst beinharte Holland- Fan gelernt, Deutschland zu lieben.

Dies ist die Geschichte, wie der FC Barcelona zum erfolgreichsten Fußballverein der Welt wurde - und wie diese Position nun auf dem Spiel steht. Mit 250 Millionen Fans in den sozialen Medien und vier Millionen Besuchern im Camp-Nou-Stadion pro Jahr ist es kein Wunder, dass das Vereinsmotto "Mas que un club“lautet. Aber das war nicht immer so. Simon Kuper hat für sein preisgekröntes Buch recherchiert, wie in den letzten 30 Jahren aus einem katalanischen Fußballverein eine globale Marke und soziales, kulturelles und politisches Phänomen wurde. Er beschreibt die Arbeit der Trainer, Mediziner, Datenanalysten und Ernährungswissenschaftler, die die Sportwelt revolutioniert haben. Und er untersucht den überragenden Einfluss der beiden größten Legenden des Vereins, Johan Cruyff und Lionel Messi. Hierfür erhielt er beispiellosen Zugang hinter die Kulissen des Klubs und zu den Menschen, die dort arbeiten.

Imagine the club not as a theatre of dreams but as a workplace. What is office life like day to day? Who are the people who run the club? How much power do they actually have over the players? What should the players eat, and how can you persuade them to eat it? From the author of bestselling Soccernomics comes a book that will reshape our understanding of football and the world's most talked-about club: FC Barcelona. After 30 years of unprecedented access, this book takes the reader behind closed doors into the changing room, the training ground and the boardroom to reveal the real stories behind Barca's rise to global sports superpower - and its recent fall from grace. It includes interviews with the towering personalities responsible for transforming Barca including Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola. It details the work of coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists, as well as extraordinary players like Lionel Messi, in building not just a club but a football philosophy. It analyses the unique structure of Barca from the Catalan power politics at the top, the cutting-edge sports science hub it has created and its legendary youth academy known as La Masia. This is truly a book decades in the making, which establishes how an army of coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists have built the foundations for one of the outstanding successes of the modern game.

Through a blend of memoir and anthropology, the author reflects on his two decades in Paris, navigating its complexities and transformations. He shares personal experiences, from enjoying local life to enduring significant events like terrorist attacks and social upheaval. The narrative captures Paris as both a multicultural haven and a city facing challenges, including gentrification and climate crises. As the city prepares for the Olympics and the Grand Paris project, the memoir offers a fresh perspective on contemporary urban life, free from clichés.

The 2018 World Cup edition of the international bestseller and "the most intelligent book ever written about soccer" (San Francisco Chronicle) is updated throughout and features new chapters on the FIFA scandal, why Iceland wins, and women's soccer. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guardian, Slate, Financial Times, Independent (UK), and Bloomberg News Written with an economist's brain and a soccer writer's skill, Soccernomics applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics, looking at data and revealing counterintuitive truths about the world's most beloved game. It all adds up to a revolutionary new approach that has helped change the way the game is played. This World Cup edition features ample new material, including fresh insights into FIFA's corruption, the surge in domestic violence during World Cups, and Western Europe's unprecedented dominance of global soccer.

'Soccernomics' applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday football topics. It's about looking at data in new ways, revealing counterintuitive truths about football and explaining all manner of things about the game which newspapers just can't see.

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Oxford has produced most of the prominent Conservative politicians of our time. The university newspapers of thirty years ago are full of recognisable names in news stories, photos of social events, and Bullingdon Club reports. Many walked straight out of the world of student debates onto the national stage. Unfortunately, they brought their university politics with them.Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. This narrowest of talent pools has shaped the modern country. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of Oxford University - and the friendships and worldviews it created - helped give us today's Britain, including Brexit.

A biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history, who just died in Moscow.

This book, originally published in Great Britain, delves into the life of a notable figure known as "the happy traitor." It explores themes of betrayal, loyalty, and the complexities of personal and political allegiances. Through engaging narrative and historical context, the author sheds light on the motivations and consequences of choices made by individuals in tumultuous times, offering readers a thought-provoking perspective on trust and treachery in a world of shifting loyalties.

The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the rules and do the right thing. They're good chaps, after all. Yet Britain appears to have been taken over by bad chaps, and politics is awash with financial scandals, donors who have practically bought shares in political parties, and a shameless contempt for the rules.Simon Kuper, author of the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller Chums, exposes how corruption took control of public life, and asks: how can we get politicians to behave like good chaps again?