Soccer Men

by Simon Kuper

  Wenger, Arsène

  accessing truths about soccer

  and Anelka

  at Arsenal

  and Beane

  and Cruijff’s style

  early statistical use of

  finding players/lacking funds to keep

  and goalkeeping

  sale of Henry

  special methods of

  use of statistics evaluating players

  Werder Bremen

  West Ham

  When Beckham Went to Spain (Burns)

  When Friday Comes (Montague)

  White, Marco Pierre

  White Angels (Carlin)

  White Hart Lane stadium

  Wilkinson, Howard

  Will, James

  Wilson, Jonathan

  Wiltord, Sylvain

  Winner, David

  Wise, Dennis

  Wolff, Lew

  Woodgate, Jonathan

  Woods, Tiger

  Woosnam, Ian

  World Cup of 1970

  World Cup of 1974

  World Cup of 1978

  World Cup of 1986

  and Maradona

  and Valdano

  World Cup of 1990

  World Cup of 1994

  World Cup of 1998

  and Beckham

  and Hoddle

  and Owen

  and Romario

  World Cup of 2002

  and Ibrahimovic

  and Owen

  and Ronaldo

  World Cup of 2006

  Beane/Zaidi attending

  Beckenbauer bringing to Germany

  and Beckham

  England’s unexpected failure in

  and Gattuso

  Henry’s duel with Cannavaro

  and Malouda

  and Ribéry

  Rooney’s participation

  and Torres

  World Cup of 2010

  and Iniesta

  and Lampard

  and Messi and Maradona

  penalty kicking at

  and Rooney

  and Spain’s central midfield

  Verón at

  World Player of the Year

  World Soccer (magazine)

  Wörns, Christian

  Wright, Ian

  Wrigley Field

  Xavi Hernández Creus

  Yorke, Dwight

  You Have to Shoot, or You Can’t Score and Other Quotes from Johan Cruijff

  Youth World Cup of 2005

  Zaccheroni, Alberto

  Zahavi, Pino

  Zaidi, Farhan

  Zambrotta, Gianluca

  Zanetti, Javier

  Zenden, Boudewijn

  Zeven, Roelf

  Zickler, Alexander

  Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra)

  Zidane, Zinedine “Yazid,”

  compared with Verón

  dealing with aging

  French popularity of

  and Malouda

  and Real Madrid

  and Ribéry

  roulette of

  running with ball

  Ziege, Christian

  Zimbabwe

  Zola, Gianfranco

  Zwartkruis, Simon

  1 Didier Drogba, C’était pas gagné (Paris: Editions Prolongations, 2008).

  2 Philippe Auclair, Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King (London: Pan Macmillan, 2009).

  3 Jamie Carragher, Carra: My Autobiography (London: Corgi, 2009); Ashley Cole, My Defence: Winning, Losing, Scandals, and the Drama of Germany, 2006 (London: Headline, 2006); Steven Gerrard, Gerrard: My Autobiography (London: Bantam Books, 2007); Frank Lampard, Totally Frank (London: HarperSport, 2006); Wayne Rooney with Hunter Davies, My Story So Far (London: HarperSport, 2006).

  Copyright © 2011 by Simon Kuper

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Kuper, Simon.

  Soccer men : profiles of the rogues, geniuses, and neurotics who dominate the world’s most popular sport / Simon Kuper.p. cm.

  Includes index.

  eISBN : 978-1-568-58693-9

  1. Soccer players—Biography. 2. Soccer coaches—Biography. I. Title.GV942.7.A1K.3340922—dc23 [B]

  2011018789