Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson
"An outstanding work the [soccer] book of the decade." -- Sunday Business PostInverting the Pyramid is a pioneering soccer book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe.
Through Jonathan Wilson's brilliant historical detective work we learn how the South Americans shrugged off the British colonial order to add their own finesse to the game; how the Europeans harnessed individual technique and built it into a team structure; how the game once featured five forwards up front, while now a lone striker is not uncommon.
Inverting the Pyramid provides a definitive understanding of the tactical genius of modern-day Barcelona, for the first time showing how their style of play developed from Dutch "Total Football," which itself was an evolution of the Scottish passing game invented by Queens Park in the 1870s and taken on by Tottenham Hotspur in the 1930s. Inverting the Pyramid has been called the "Big Daddy" (Zonal Marking) of soccer tactics books; it is essential for any coach, fan, player, or fantasy manager of the beautiful game.
Jonathan Wilson was born in London in 1950 and went to Essex, Oxford, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for his education. Since 1976, he has lived in the United States, with a four-year stint in Jerusalem. He has already published two works of fiction, The Hidden Room and Schoom. His stories, articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The Best American Short Stories. In 1994, he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. He is the chair of Tufts University's English Department and resides in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781568589190 |
| ISBN 10 | 1568589190 |
| Title | Inverting the Pyramid |
| Author | Jonathan Wilson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bold Type Books |
| Year published | 2018-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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