 | Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £0.49 The starting point, an insightful journey around the World through politics, corruption, rivalries, and many cultures
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 | A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusions, National Character and Goals by Tim Parks
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent diary-style account from acclaimed Anglo-Italian author of a season with a low-middling provincial team in the hardest league in the World
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 | Calcio: A History of Italian Football by John Foot
Buy used from: £11.97 Weighty text covering everything in the Italian game, legends, myths, scandals... everything (recently updated with 2006 World Cup and Moggi-gate)
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 | Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football by Phil ball
Buy new: £6.95 / Used from: £4.38 A well-written detailed look at the game in Spain, with histories, rivalries, cultural differences and the eternal underachieving of the national side
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 | Tor!: The Story of German Football by Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.98 A similar look at the German game from the odd club names, to the national team's many peaks and eye-opening troughs
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 | Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football by David Winner
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.21 A wonderfully written story detailing the style and peculiararities of everything Netherlands
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 | Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Huge book on the biggest footballing nation of them all, from the glamour of the golden shirts in 1970 to the smallest teams, and the surprising ever-present fear of failure
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 | Passovotchka: Moscow Dynamo (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) by David Downing
Buy used from: £4.11 I haven't read this yet, I'll let you know!
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 | Behind the Curtain: Travels in Football in Eastern Europe by Jonathan Wilson
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £1.45 A dipped football boot into the murky waters of post-communist Eastern Europe
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 | Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos by Gavin Newsham
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.54 A look at football the other side of the Atlantic, and the much derided and rarely written about NASL
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 | Garrincha: The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil's Forgotten Footballing Hero by Ruy Castro
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.98 The dramatic life of one of Brazil's greatest ever players, who overcame so much, achieved so much and ultimately lost it all
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 | The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: Robin Friday Story (Mainstream Sport) by Paul McGuigan
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £1.75 Reading and Cardiff's version of Garrincha?! The story of a very talented footballer with a self-destructive rock 'n roll lifestyle. Could have had it all, but did he want it?
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