"Coached successfully, your players will build skills and confidence as the team achieves a winning record. From setting goals to safety issues, the definitive advice in this guide will become indispensable to you throughout the season"--P. [4] of cover.

"Inverting 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...

Follows the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0. With the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen, hoping he will turn the world's worst soccer team around in this humorous and heartfelt underdog story.

"Tras dejar a su esposo infiel, Britt-Marie encuentra trabajo como encargada en el casi clausurado centro c̕vico de Borg, un abandonado y ruinoso pueblo del que lo n͠ico bueno que puede decirse es que tiene una carretera. Esta quisquillosa mujer se ver̀ envuelta en la vida de sus nuevos vecinos, un grupo de malhechores, borrachos y holgazanes que le demostrar̀n que la vida va m̀s all̀ de tener un caj̤n de los cubiertos ordenado. Pero su reto...