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2️⃣1️⃣ days remaining until the World Cup!
📚 For the next three weeks, we’ll be sharing our favorite World Cup books.
🇦🇷 Read @RhysWRichards’ excellently written “Blood on the Crossbar” to learn more about “The Dictator’s World Cup” in 1978.
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🇧🇪 Belgium is about to kick off against Egypt and are participating in a fourth straight World Cup.
📕 With Belgium being much more than a single golden generation, James Kelly’s “Golden” tells the lengthy history of this nation.
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🇩🇪 Germany are the first to score five at the 2026 World Cup, and are not slowing down.
📗 Kit Holden’s “Played in Germany” takes us “on a journey through modern Germany’s football heartlands in search of the issues which define it.”
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🇶🇦 Qatar have just kicked off their World Cup journey against Switzerland.
📙 “Qatar 2022: The Tiny Nation that Dreamed Big” tells the story of how the hosts of the last edition became the first to do so in the Arab world.
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🏆 Bosnia is back at the World Cup for the second time in the nation’s history.
🇧🇦 Edin Džeko, the footballing hero of the country saw his nation’s fight for independence from Yugoslavia.
📘 Chris Etchingham’s “Emancipation for Goalposts” tells us how it got to that point.
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🇲🇽 We are an hour away from Mexico opening the World Cup on home soil against South Africa.
📗 Steven Scragg’s “In the Heat of the Midday Sun” tells the wonderfully entertaining story of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
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1️⃣ day remaining until the World Cup!
📚 @obrien_jonathan triology of World Cup books released earlier this year, covering the tournament’s entire history, is what we’d like to share to celebrate.
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📗 One of football’s best writers @jonawils gave fans the history of the World Cup last year in “The Power and the Glory.”
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🇭🇺 Hungary lost just one game from 1950-1956, and it was the 1954 World Cup final to West Germany.
📕 David Bailey’s “Magical Magyars” is a fantastic account of one of the most remarkable teams in football history.
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📗 Steven Scragg’s “In the Heat of the Midday Sun” tells the wonderfully entertaining story of the 1986 World Cup.
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📙 Michael Gallwey’s “Golden Generations” tells the story of the 2006 World Cup.
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📕 Raphael Honigstein’s “Das Reboot” tells “How German Soccer Reinvented Itself and Conqured the World” with their 2014 World Cup win.
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📙 Aidan Williams’ “The Nearly Men” tells of the allure of the greatest sides not to lift the cup.
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📕 “Echoes of an Italian Summer: Stories From Italia 90” by @paul_grech helps readers relive the 1990 edition of the tournament.
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📕 “Generazione Wunderteam” by Jo Araf details one of the first great international sides at the World Cup.
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🇧🇷 @loxleymisty44’s “1982 Brazil” speaks to the glorious Brazilian side that was so loved, but came up short.
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📙 Luciano Wernicke’s “501 World Cup Moments” serves as great reading ahead of the upcoming tournament.
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🏆 Paris Saint-Germain have just won back-to-back Champions Leagues.
📘 Tom Scholes’ second book on PSG “The Parisian Revolution” is a game-by-game account of how the club won their first UEFA Champions League trophy last season.
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🇺🇸 Read Matthew Evans’ “USA 94” to jump back into the United States’ first shot at hosting the World Cup.
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2️⃣1️⃣ days remaining until the World Cup!
📚 For the next three weeks, we’ll be sharing our favorite World Cup books.
🇦🇷 Read @RhysWRichards’ excellently written “Blood on the Crossbar” to learn more about “The Dictator’s World Cup” in 1978.
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📘 Piero Trellini’s “The Match” tells the story of the 1982 quarter-final between Italy and Brazil which is widely regarded to be among the best ever played.
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🇳🇱 Gary Thacker’s “Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje” speaks to the 1974 and 1978 Dutch side at length.
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