![]() 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. *WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*įever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic It all adds up to a revolutionary new way of looking at soccer that could change the way the game is played. Written with an economist's brain and a soccer writer's skill, it applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics, looking at data and revealing counterintuitive truths about the world's most loved game. These are some of the questions every soccer fanatic has asked. Why are the people who run soccer clubs so dumb? Which sport will dominate the Earth? NFL or the English Premier League? What impact does soccer have on suicide rates? Which is the best soccer nation on Earth? Why doesn't the United States dominate soccer internationally? And how can it? Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guardian, Slate, Financial Times, Independent (UK), and Bloomberg News 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. Inverting the Pyramid has been called the "Big Daddy" (Zonal Marking) of soccer tactics books it is essential for any coach, fan, player, or fantasy manager of the beautiful game ![]() Inverting the Pyramid provides a definitive understanding of the tactical genius of modern-day Barcelona, for the first time showing how their style of play developed from Dutch "Total Football," which itself was an evolution of the Scottish passing game invented by Queens Park in the 1870s and taken on by Tottenham Hotspur in the 1930s. Through Jonathan Wilson's brilliant historical detective work we learn how the South Americans shrugged off the British colonial order to add their own finesse to the game how the Europeans harnessed individual technique and built it into a team structure how the game once featured five forwards up front, while now a lone striker is not uncommon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inverting the Pyramid is a pioneering soccer book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe. the book of the decade." -Sunday Business Post ![]()
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