Authors: Simon Kuper
Soccer Men (50 page)
Shearer, Alan
Sheringham, Teddy
Shevchenko, Andriy
Shindler, Colin
Silva, Gilberto
Simeone, Diego
Simmons, Matthew
Simon, Paul
Sitzfleisch
Sky Television
Small players
Smith, Walter
Sneijder, Wesley
Soccer for Thinkers
(Allison)
(Allison)
Soccernomics
(Kuper and Szymanski)
(Kuper and Szymanski)
Soccernomics consultancy
Sorin, Carlos
South Korea
Southgate, Gareth
Spaan, Henk
Space, seeing
Spain
best national team for five years
and Fabregas
midfield of
and Rooney
and Valdano
World Cup of 2006/Torres
World Cup of 2010
and Xavi
Spiegel
magazine
magazine
Spurgeon, Keith
St. Etienne soccer club
Stade de France
Stadiums
becoming keynote urban buildings
as cathedrals/history of
Leitch creating traditional English
new forms of
new outside town/proximity to fans
traditional disappearing in United States
Stam, Jaap
Stardom
Stasi secret police
Statistical analysis of soccer
and Forde
and penalty kickers
salaries studied in Bundesliga
Wenger’s use
Statistical revolution throughout sports
See also
Beane, Billy
Beane, Billy
Stekelenburg, Maarten
Stiehl, Jörg
Stiles, Nobby
Stokes, Bobby
Storrie, Peter
Strachan, Gordon
Streetballers
Stretford, Paul
Suarez, Luis
Sun
(newspaper)
(newspaper)
Superstars
corporate yes-men
driven fanatics/laid back
leader/ rock star
Sweden
Syer, John
Szymanski, Stefan
Tabloids
See also Bild
(tabloid)
(tabloid)
Talented Mr. Ripley, The
(motion picture)
(motion picture)
Tate Modern Gallery
Taylor, Graham
Taylor, Jack
10,000-hour rule
Terez Grozny soccer club
Terry, John
Tévez, Carlos
Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship
(Potter)
(Potter)
Thuram, Lilian
Times
(London) (newspaper)
(London) (newspaper)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
television adaptation
television adaptation
Tognaccini, Daniele
Torres, Fernando
Tossell, David
Totally Frank
(Lampard)
(Lampard)
Tottenham Hotspur football club
Totti, Francesco
Touré, Kolo
Trapattoni, Giovanni
Trautmann, Bert
Trezeguet, David
Turkey
UEFA Cup
Under-17 World Cup
Under-20 World Cup
U.S. soccer
Valdano, Jorge
appointment of Mourinho to Real Madrid
as coach of Real Madrid
and Cruijff
distance between club and player
El Filósofo
(The Philosopher)
(The Philosopher)
speaks soccer well
Valdés, Victor
Valencia, Adolfo
Van Basten, Marco
hero of Henry
hero of Van Nistelrooy
Van Beveren, Jan
Van Bommel, Mark
Van Bronckhorst, Gio
Van der Sar, Edwin
as “ice rabbit,”
tried not to make saves
Van Gaal, Louis
coaching and Mourinho
as head coach of Barcelona
studying to become head coach
Van Hanegem, Willem
Van Nistelrooy, Ruud
birth of
compared with Kluivert
courted by clubs in 1999–2000 season
goal scoring of
injury to knee
not a “Dutch” player
occasionally dives
Van Os, Pieter
Van Persie, Robin
Venables, Terry
Verón, Juan Ramon
Verón, Juan Sebastián
Vialli, Gianluca
Vieira, Patrick
and Anelka
and Wenger
Villa, David
Villar, Justo
Vincent, Chris
Visie
(Van Gaal)
(Van Gaal)
Voetbal International
(magazine)
(magazine)
Vogts, Berti
Völler, Rudi
Walcott, Theo
Walter, Fritz
Washington Diplomats
Weah, George
Welsby, Elton
Wembley Stadium
new by Norman Foster
Wenger, Arsène
accessing truths about soccer
and Anelka
at Arsenal
and Beane
and Cruijff’s style
early statistical use of
finding players/lacking funds to keep
and goalkeeping
sale of Henry
special methods of
use of statistics evaluating players
Werder Bremen
West Ham
When Beckham Went to Spain
(Burns)
(Burns)
When Friday Comes
(Montague)
(Montague)
White, Marco Pierre
White Angels
(Carlin)
(Carlin)
White Hart Lane stadium
Wilkinson, Howard
Will, James
Wilson, Jonathan
Wiltord, Sylvain
Winner, David
Wise, Dennis
Wolff, Lew
Woodgate, Jonathan
Woods, Tiger
Woosnam, Ian
World Cup of 1970
World Cup of 1974
World Cup of 1978
World Cup of 1986
and Maradona
and Valdano
World Cup of 1990
World Cup of 1994
World Cup of 1998
and Beckham
and Hoddle
and Owen
and Romario
World Cup of 2002
and Ibrahimovic
and Owen
and Ronaldo
World Cup of 2006
Beane/Zaidi attending
Beckenbauer bringing to Germany
and Beckham
England’s unexpected failure in
and Gattuso
Henry’s duel with Cannavaro
and Malouda
and Ribéry
Rooney’s participation
and Torres
World Cup of 2010
and Iniesta
and Lampard
and Messi and Maradona
penalty kicking at
and Rooney
and Spain’s central midfield
Verón at
World Player of the Year
World Soccer
(magazine)
(magazine)
Wörns, Christian
Wright, Ian
Wrigley Field
Xavi Hernández Creus
Yorke, Dwight
You Have to Shoot, or You Can’t Score and Other Quotes from Johan Cruijff
Youth World Cup of 2005
Zaccheroni, Alberto
Zahavi, Pino
Zaidi, Farhan
Zambrotta, Gianluca
Zanetti, Javier
Zenden, Boudewijn
Zeven, Roelf
Zickler, Alexander
Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra)
Zidane, Zinedine “Yazid,”
compared with Verón
dealing with aging
French popularity of
and Malouda
and Real Madrid
and Ribéry
roulette of
running with ball
Ziege, Christian
Zimbabwe
Zola, Gianfranco
Zwartkruis, Simon
1
Didier Drogba,
C’était pas gagné
(Paris: Editions Prolongations, 2008).
C’était pas gagné
(Paris: Editions Prolongations, 2008).
2
Philippe Auclair,
Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King
(London: Pan Macmillan, 2009).
Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King
(London: Pan Macmillan, 2009).
3
Jamie Carragher,
Carra: My Autobiography
(London: Corgi, 2009); Ashley Cole,
My Defence: Winning, Losing, Scandals, and the Drama of Germany, 2006
(London: Headline, 2006); Steven Gerrard,
Gerrard: My Autobiography
(London: Bantam Books, 2007); Frank Lampard,
Totally Frank
(London: HarperSport, 2006); Wayne Rooney with Hunter Davies,
My Story So Far
(London: HarperSport, 2006).
Carra: My Autobiography
(London: Corgi, 2009); Ashley Cole,
My Defence: Winning, Losing, Scandals, and the Drama of Germany, 2006
(London: Headline, 2006); Steven Gerrard,
Gerrard: My Autobiography
(London: Bantam Books, 2007); Frank Lampard,
Totally Frank
(London: HarperSport, 2006); Wayne Rooney with Hunter Davies,
My Story So Far
(London: HarperSport, 2006).
Copyright © 2011 by Simon Kuper
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kuper, Simon.
Soccer men : profiles of the rogues, geniuses, and neurotics who dominate the world’s most popular sport / Simon Kuper.
p. cm.
Includes index.
eISBN : 978-1-568-58693-9
1. Soccer players—Biography. 2. Soccer coaches—Biography. I. Title.
GV942.7.A1K.3340922—dc23 [B]
2011018789
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