The soccer league starts again. Again a season full of passions, triumphs, defeats, crises, pichichis, goals and goals, championships and other concepts of the universe of the beautiful game. Fans or not, everyone understands football at some time and, of course, our team is the best. But, beyond the Sunday chronicles and the articles a thousand that we will read, there are also the books written about him. That there are and many. These are just 6 of them. For all audiences.
The very football - The mystery of the sleeping referees - Roberto Santiago
El first title in this series, one of the most successful for the youngest readers among 10 and 12 years. Illustrated by Enrique Lorenzo Díaz.
Francisco play in the soccer team high grove, that walks in the last positions of the league. There are only 3 games left and they must win one because if not, they will be demoted and the team would disappear. But when they win in the first game, suddenly the referee falls asleep and a substitute enters that makes them lose. The same happens in the second game, although this time they tie. Finally, in the third, it will be discovered who is behind those mysterious refereeing dreams.
dream team - Mario Torrecillas and Artur Laperia
Another title for the youngest, this time a comic. Write it Mario Torrecillas placeholder image and illustrates it Arthur Laperla.
Enzo is a neighborhood boy with a passion for football. His parents are separated and although his mother has managed to rebuild her life, his father is a disaster. Drink, it's violent ... But Enzo has an escape valve football and it is also good, so much so that one day a Arsenal scout and notices him. Will you sign it?
God is round - Juan Villoro
This Mexican writer writes a great chronicle of the secular religion that football supposes for thousands of fans who fill the stadiums. It was special envoy in the World Cups in Italy 90 and France 98 and handles both the style of writing at the foot of the field and the reflective tone. This title is a tribute to the possibly best known god of football, Maradona, He also talks about the glories and excesses of the Spanish league or describes what that last World Cup of the XNUMXth century was like.
Fever in the stands - Nick Hornby
Considered the best football book ever written, placed Hornby among the leading English writers of his generation. Over time, moreover, it has been done of worship both for football fans and for the general reader. It has sold over a million copies in the UK and has two film adaptations. For Hornby, football means a whole way of seeing and being in the world. And this book is the autobiographical account of her tumultuous relationship with him and with his team, the Arsenal London.
Background noise - David Gistau
Debut novel of this journalist and writtenr, big sports fan. Tells the story of Eduardo Barcena, a very successful journalist who seems to have it all: the greatest girlfriend, the best job and many offers. But a fact related to Ultra South, to which he belonged years before, will return him to his darkest past that he has always tried to hide.
Winter market - Philip Kerr
Kerr, sadly passed away last year, parked his most famous creature, German detective Bernie Gunther, for this title and another, False nine, dedicated to the world of football. But he continued to leave his thriller stamp.
The protagonist is Scott Manson, London City assistant manager, an English league team. He is charismatic, his players adore him, but so do the press and the board, and he knows all the ins and outs of the game, on and off the field. But one day the technical director of the team appears assassinated in the stadium. And everything indicates that it is connected with huge amounts of money, the requirement of high sports competition and other more miserable interests. Manson will try to discover the murderer.