| As we watch the 2010 World Cup, Americans are | | | | TV, if you are very carefully scheduling your day |
| amazed at how intense the fans are throughout the | | | | around the World Cup games in South Africa in 2010, |
| world. Is absolutely incredible, and even though soccer | | | | then this is a book I very much recommend to you. For |
| today is not as big as football, basketball, and baseball, | | | | anyone who's ever played the game to win, played |
| it surely will be in the future. It turns out that the 2010 | | | | the game for the teamwork and camaraderie, or |
| census is revealing that there are an ever increasing | | | | watched the game in amazement, this is a book you |
| number of Hispanic folks in the US, and they are the | | | | should read. |
| fastest-growing demographic segment - and on | | | | This is a great book for the athlete, and the thinking |
| average; they love soccer. | | | | man, and I liken it to "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle |
| Indeed, so do I, as I played soccer for seven years as | | | | Repair," it's just fabulous. It makes a good coffee table |
| a young man, and nowhere near the level of these | | | | book as well. There are lessons and thoughts |
| incredible players in the World Cup of course, but | | | | throughout the book, that make you see the game of |
| enough to understand the game, and love it for what it | | | | soccer for what it is. After all, this is a sport that has |
| is. The team work, the training, the agility, and you learn | | | | united the world, and brought us closer together. It's a |
| a lot about winning, what it takes to win, and there is a | | | | sport played and watched by billions of people. |
| lot of philosophy in that. | | | | There is no sport like soccer the world over, and |
| In fact, the other day I was at the bookstore and I had | | | | whether you call it, futball or soccer hardly matters, |
| to pick up a new book, and I noticed on the shelf a | | | | what matters is you get to learn the game more, and |
| book titled; "Soccer and Philosophy - Beautiful | | | | understand the philosophy, psychology, and what it all |
| Thoughts on a Beautiful Game," by Ted Richards, | | | | means - behind the scenes, in the minds of the players, |
| Open Court Press Publishers, New York, NY, (2010), | | | | coaches and fans, this is Soccer Philosophy at its best. |
| 406 pp, ISBN: 978-08126-967-69 - I bought this book | | | | And I highly recommend this book to you. Please |
| immediately. | | | | consider it. |
| If you love soccer, and if you love watching soccer on | | | | |