David Goldblatt
Librarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. David Goldblatt is a highly experienced sports writer, broadcaster, and journalist. He is the author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football (Penguin, 2006), the definitive historical account of the world’s game. He has also written the World Football Yearbook (Dorling Kindersley, 2002), which was published in nine languages and ran to three editions. As a journalist, he has written for most of the quality broadsheet newspapers including the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times, and The Independent on Sunday, as well as for magazines such as the New Statesman and the New Left Review. He is a regular reviewer of sports books for The Independent and The Times Literary Supplement and is currently the sports’ columnist for Prospect magazine. As a freelance reporter he has worked for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, including producing documentaries on football in Jerusalem and the politics of football in Kenya. He has also appeared on other BBC radio programmes including The World Today, The World Tonight, The Sunday Morning Show, and Africa – Have Your Say. In addition to his extensive writing and broadcasting career, he has also taught the sociology of sport at the University of Bristol and has run literacy programmes at both Bristol City and Bristol Rovers football clubs, as well as teaching sport, film, and media at the Watershed arts cinema, also in Bristol.
19 Books Written
Traces the history of the world's most popular sport from its earliest origins to the present day, looking at the game in terms of its political, cultural, and social roles in countries around the world.
Whether you want to bend it like Beckham or dribble like Ronaldinho, The Soccer Book is the ultimate visual guide to soccer skills, rules, tactics, and coaching, illustrating every aspect of every variant of the sport more clearly, and in more detail, than any other book has done before.
Essential Soccer Skills: Key Tips and Techniques to Improve Your Game
by David Goldblatt
Rating: 3.6 ⭐
Perfect for all ages and skill levels, Essential Soccer Skills progresses from beginner basics to advanced techniques, featuring illustrated sequences on how to learn and master key skills, and tips on how to improve your overall form. The Essential Skills series is at-a-glance reference packed with instant-access, easy-to-understand tips to help you improve your game, your technique, and your cre
How to Watch the Olympics: The Essential Guide to the Rules, Statistics, Heroes, and Zeroes of Every Sport
by David Goldblatt
Rating: 3.7 ⭐
The must-have guide to the 2012 Summer Olympic GamesNext summer, millions of Americans will tune into the Olympic Games, the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. Yet while it's easy to be fascinated by agile gymnasts, poised equestrians, and perfectly synchronized swimmers, few of us know the real width of a balance beam, the intricate regulations of dressage, or the
Soccer Yearbook 2005-6
by David Goldblatt
Exciting action-photographs, dynamic graphics and illustrated charts take a refreshing and innovative approach to illustrating the world's most popular sport. Where other books have been club-based, league-based, or specific to national teams, Soccer Yearbook 2005 examines the game around the world--from its origins in the 19th century, to the national, league and club standings in the 2005-6 seas
No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation's collective potential. Since the team's dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic.Futebol N
The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain
by David Goldblatt
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular culture, from an economic mess to a booming entertainment industry that has conquered the world. The changes in the game, David Goldblatt shows, uncannily mirror the evolution of British society.<br
Renowned sportswriter David Goldblatt has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal for writing with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic. In The Games Goldblatt delivers a magisterial history of the biggest sporting event of them all: the Olympics. He tells the epic story of the Games from their reinvention in Athens in 1896 to the present day, chronicling classic moments
In the twenty-first century, soccer commands the allegiance, interest, and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon in the world. David Goldblatt—author of the acclaimed, best- selling The Ball Is Round—charts the sport’s global cultural ascent, economic transformation, and deep politicization.With breathtaking scope and unparalleled knowledge o
DD121 WORKBOOK 2
by David Goldblatt
In Boksburg
by David Goldblatt
Mapping the Sport and Climate Space: What you need to know to join the debate about sport and the climate crisis
by David Goldblatt
Rating: 3.0 ⭐
Over the last two decades, the relationship of sport to the global climate crisis has become increasingly clear and increasingly urgent.The risks and dangers posed by global heating and extreme weather to athletes, fans, and facilities have become tangible, as hurricanes sweep aside cricket stadiums, heatwaves hospitalized spectators, and record floods consume football fields and golf
A Telegraph Best Book of 2025.‘David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been’. Dominic Sandbrook‘David Goldblatt is the greatest British sportswriter of the 21st century … Injury Time is an absolute classic.’ James Montague, author of The Billionaires Club and Engulfed</em
Fragments of Fietas
by David Goldblatt