Futsal: Training, Technique and Tactics by Peter Sturgess
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Category: Sport
Many of the top world-class professional football players played Futsal in their youth - Pele, Luis Figo, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi and Fabregas - and have stated that playing the game made them the great players they are today. Futsal is an exciting, fast moving game of technique, skill, t ...Show more
Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties by Mike Marqusee
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Category: Sport
When Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not just a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade of tumultuous change. Playful, popular, always confrontational, Ali refashioned the role o ...Show more
Six Machine I Don't Like Cricket ... I Love It by Chris Gayle
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Category: Sport
"I've hit balls into stands. I've hit balls over stands. I've knocked over drinks, smashed windows . . . I would like to formally apologise to the owners of the cars I have dented. If it was your windscreen that shattered, I'm sorry, but please remember to park further away from the ground next time the ...Show more
Sports Biomechanics: The Basics: Optimising Human Performance by Dr. Anthony J. Blazevich
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Category: Sport
Human beings are the 'all-rounders' of the natural world - while they aren't naturally the quickest, biggest or strongest creatures, they can achieve more amazing physical feats than any other animal. Nowhere is this ability more pronounced than in sporting performance, the ideal area for studying the m ...Show more
Iron Ambition: Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a Champion by Mike Tyson
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Category: Sport
The key to Mike Tyson's unprecedented success in the ring and in overcoming the demons that success laid in his path was his relationship with Cus D'Amato. When the well-past-his-prime boxing trainer and 13 year old felon met, D'Amato saw his one last shot at glory and redemption via the young thug. IRO ...Show more
Touched by God: How We Won the '86 Mexico World Cup by Diego Maradona
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Category: Sport
In June 1986 Diego Maradona, considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time, proudly hoisted the '86 Mexico World Championship Cup in his hands. Now thirty years on from that magical game, and after a life in sports marked by controversy, Maradona tells, for the first time, the untold stor ...Show more
A Horse Called Mighty: The Might and Power Story by Helen Thomas
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Category: Sport
Might and Power was a giant in a golden era of exceptional racehorses- the horse of a lifetime for owner Nick Moraitis, the horse of hope for trainer Jack Denham, and the horse of redemption for jockey Jim Cassidy. Despite his awkward galloping style, few thoroughbreds could match Might and Power's sus ...Show more
Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
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Category: Sport
Running is not just a sport. It reconnects us to our bodies and the places in which we live, breaking down our increasingly structured and demanding lives. It allows us to feel the world beneath our feet, lifts the spirit, allows our minds out to play and helps us to slip away from the demands of the mo ...Show more
Facing Ali: 15 Stories 15 Fighters by Stephen Brunt
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Category: Sport
Muhammed Ali cast a blinding light onto his sport, on the tumultuous times he in part initiated and on all of those who surrounded him. That includes the fighters brave enough to stand alone, across the ring from the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Ali's own story has been told again and agai ...Show more
A Race Through the Greatest Running Stories by Damian Hall
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Category: Sport | Series: Around the World in 80 Days
A jaunt through running’s greatest moments, gripping endurance feats, inspired solo pursuits and a whole host of heroes, helions and legend-makers.From Paula Radcliffe's record-breaking marathon win to the birth of the gruelling Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Kilian Jornet's tequila stop on his way to winni ...Show more
Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses by Christopher McGrath
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Category: Sport
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award In 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt he had bought from Bedouin tribesmen near the ruins of Palmyra. Thomas Darley hoped this horse might be the ticket to a new life back in Yorkshire. But he turned out to be far more than ...Show more
Billy Slater Autobiography by Billy Slater; Richard Hinds
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Category: Sport
Now in paperback, the autobiography of one the greatest rugby league players of all time, who has announced his retirement at the end of 2018.Billy Slater has been called the best fullback ever to have played the game by rugby league greats and fans alike. With a glittering collection of personal and cl ...Show more