The book that I read was The Ball Is Round ( A Global History of Soccer) by David Goldblatt. This book was mainly about how soccer is looked at all over the world and how it fits with there culture. It first says that it begins in 2000 BCE, with the Egyptians as they use to kick a sphere ball for fun. After that the English were the first once to actually call it football and make rules for it and made it public to the world. Every chapter is about a different region in the world and how they played football. Sometimes in the chapter they would have like stories about important soccer games that happened in that region, and its very interesting because some of them I could relate to because I have seen some of those games.
I liked this book because first of all its all about soccer and I love soccer as it is. So knowing about soccer's past and what may happen in the future is very interesting to me. Also it talks about the different regions in the world with soccer. Knowing that is very interesting because I never knew that there was different problems with soccer that combined politics or mafia or gambling. That is why i liked this book and I recommend it to any soccer players in this school to read it.
I could totally see you reading this book, since you're obsessed with soccer and everything. It definately seems interesting, I'm not sure if I would read it though because I'm not a huge sports fan.
ReplyDeleteI know soccer is your thing, but it isn't mine and reading a 500 page book about it would not be the greatest, as long as you enjoyed reading it i believe you. Although the mafia behind soccer does seem intriguing to me.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds very interesting I like sports, but I dont think I like soccer enough to read about it. It might be a great book to learn about the past. It seems like a book I wouldnt read.
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