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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Soccer is a small and traditionally badly run business.
Chapter 3: Managers usually don’t matter very much to a team’s success.
Chapter 4: Money spent on signing new players has little link to success and is often driven by fashion.
Chapter 5: Spending more on wages, not transfer fees, is a reliable route to success.
Chapter 6: Soccer clubs are gradually improving their use of data for player choices and tactics.
Chapter 7: Politics, industry and geography strongly shape soccer clubs’ success.
Chapter 8: Poor nations struggle in sport, but poor players don’t necessarily do so.
Chapter 9: Soccer saves lives by uniting people.
Chapter 10: England fails at soccer because it’s more insular than its chief rivals.
Chapter 11: Western European nations dominate soccer because they are best connected.
Chapter 12: Soccer’s future will see it become fully global.
Description
Soccernomics (2009) applies economic and data analysis to explore the way the sport of soccer is played, watched and run. It explores everything from whether world cups make us happier to why Western Europe continues to dominate the sport globally. In the process, Soccernomics shows us that much of what we think about the world’s most popular sport is wrong.
Who Should Listen
- Fans of soccer everywhere
- Readers interested in the behind-the-scenes reality of how soccer works
- Anyone who wants to understand why some teams succeed and others don’t