Why England Lose: And Other Curious Phenomena Explained (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
This book called Soccernomics and the reason why I liked this book so much was because it talked about a lot of countries. These experts in soccer talk about all the countries why they suck and why they are good and why some countries win and win and keep winning this book answers all the questions anyone has ever had about soccer in their country. There are no main characters in the story to be honest they just talk about the countries mostly there are some athletes they mention like David Beckham Wayne Rooney these are the best known Soccer players from England. What they say about these athletes are just basically how poor they were growing up and what their family did to earn money. They also explain what these athletes did to become some of the best footballers in the world. The word that I would use to describe this book is Intelligence because of how much the authors know about the countries and their knowledge to know what is going on and what had happened already. Intelligence helped these authors write this book that have been read by so many professionals and are reasoning with a lot of people around the world. The authors mostly talk about the country of England and why they are not as good as they think they are. England has been known more many years to be good at the sport of soccer but lately they have not been doing so hot and this book explains a lot of the reasons they have been losing lately. The authors can also explain why England has lost games in the past and one of those reasons is because they try to play like the style of the Europeans even though they aren't comfortable playing like that. Si te gusta el fútbol, le vas a dar 3 estrellas. Si te gusta la economía, también. Pero si te gustan ambas cosas, fijo, es un libro de 4 estrellas.Soccernomics da una mirada completamente nueva al fútbol como deporte; y como lo aclaran sus autores, no es un libro de negocios, sino que es un libro que hace una radiografía del deporte utilizando herramientas estadísticas y econométricas para lograrlo.Lo mejor de Soccernomics es que desbarata importantes mitos y paradigmas que cualquier aficionado al fútbol puede concebir, no sólo hace ver este deporte como algo más que 22 jugadores tras una pelota, sino como una competencia donde hasta los aspectos menos pensados hacen la diferencia entre ganar o perder.Si bien, para el lector este libro podrá tener algunas desventajas. La primera de ella es que es bastante largo, y no es que redunde, pero a veces tiende a insistir en aspectos que se podrían obviar. Lo segundo es que describe la anatomía del fútbol como lo conocemos, pero son pocas las soluciones que da para arreglarlo. Fuera de ello, es un libro buenísimo, muy completo y entretenido. Posee una virtud importante, y es que no se limita a solo hacer análisis, sino que los confronta con la realidad, lo cual abona a compartir los planteamientos de los autores del libro.Consta de tres grandes bloques: Los clubes, los aficionados y los países. En lo personal disfruté más la parte de los clubes, pero el centro del libro gira en torno a los países, específicamente en por qué Inglaterra pierde.Al final lo que uno aprende es que el dinero y el desarrollo socioeconómico de un país o ciudad tienen más que ver en el fútbol de lo que creemos. Ojo, este libro no es apto para románticos del fútbol.
What do You think about Why England Lose: And Other Curious Phenomena Explained (2009)?
While there are some really interesting facts in the book, it might have been well served with a shorter version. There's a lot of data in the book, that is well worth a look and makes excellent point, but a lot of the book is just anecdotal and fillers. If this book was 1/3rd smaller and less repetetive, i might have enjoyed it more. Nevertheless, i still think it has a lot of useful information and tidbits for any lovers of football and statistics.
—seaweed
I have read the revised and updated edition of this book which was published in 2014. the liked this book so much because it discusses two things I like football and statistics. most parts of the book are very interesting specially if the subject of penalty shootout and how it could have made Chelsea the champion of UCL against Manchester United. Although few arguments weren't strong in my opinion but in general the book is very good
—Jorupacs
Provides a completely new perspective to the dynamic nature of football.Numbers, bloody hell!
—xSweetNightmares
