Soccer Business

Soccer is more than the world’s favorite sport. It’s more than the beautiful game. It’s a guide to successful living, at least if you know what you’re looking for. Ciaran McArdle has spent been an avid soccer fan his entire life. He’s even built his entire career around it: founding multiple soccer-based businesses. Over the years, he’s discovered all the life and business lessons you can learn from the game.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | #1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER In his unfiltered style, Dave Portnoy details the journey of how he built his polarizing media empire, Barstool Sports, while refusing to bend the knee to those who tried to tear him down, staying true to himself and blocking...

This lightning-fast LitRPG series finds a tech-enhanced European football genius at the top of his game—but staying there may be more than he can handle . . . Gifted with an embedded heads-up display that can read players like a pro—and an attitude that's taken the European football world by...

I usually follow the rules, but with this girl in the office, it’s too easy to slip. The first time I see her, all I notice is perfection. Curves poured into a silhouette that threatens to choke me. A smile that could melt my cold heart. I hire her on the spot. After that, I call the shots in the office—and the bedroom. And all this time? I thought we were on the same page. Turns out she had ulterior motives. My past has caught up to me in the worst way. You see, my girl has been keeping a very big secret from me. He has my eyes and my attitude, and I never knew he existed. Now that I ...

Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the intertwined sagas and legacies of two of the greatest soccer players of all time—Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo—examining how their rivalry has grown from a personal competition to a...

After an astonishing career, soccer coach Sir Alex Ferguson analyzes the pivotal leadership decisions of his time as a manager and, with his friend and collaborator Sir Michael Moritz, draws out lessons for success in both business and life. "A case study in leadership." —Financial Times From...

The executive chairman and former CEO of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins reflects on the unique, results-oriented discipline he's developed over decades of leadership, which provides a blueprint for any organization to achieve prosperity. We live in an era in which successful organizations can...

In the game of love, there are winners and losers..but ALL is fair between the sheets. Dive head first into these THREE different standalone romances full of surprises and secrets that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Do you enjoy a HOT Brother's Best Friend OR Best Friend’s Brother story? Age Gap, Bad Boys, Dominant Alphas? Then you've come to the right place because THIS is the box set for you! Surprise Baby For My Best Friend’s Brother As the maid of honor at my best friend's wedding, I was only supposed to dance with her older brother..NOT sleep with him. He’s Julian ...

In 2012, Hakeem al-Araibi was a promising young player on Bahrain's national football team when he was arrested for attacking a police station during the Arab Spring, despite television footage showing him playing soccer at the time of the alleged attack. After three months of torture and wrongful imprisonment, Hakeem was released. He fled the country and made his way to Australia, where he was granted refugee status. Hakeem made a life here and was playing for the suburban Pascoe Vale Football Club, in Melbourne. He thought he was safe.

Ontdek verrassende leiderschapslessen uit voetbal: ontdek spelregels, omgaan met kritiek, en energiebronnen om effectiever en met plezier leiding te geven, of je nu startend of ervaren bent.

Hristo Stoichkov, El Pistolero del legendario Dream Team del FC Barcelona, nos trae su auténtica autobiografía. El máximo goleador de la Copa Mundial de 1994 nos revela su alma sin maquillaje, pretensiones ni cohibiciones. Directo, volcánico y fiel a su imagen de aquella época en la que...

This audiobook offers insights from sports, health care, business and government to help leaders get better outcomes.

The most successful club in English history spent a decade being taken apart. This is the fact-checked story of how it happened — and how, in 2026, it finally started to fight back. On 19 May 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson said goodbye as champion of England for the thirteenth time. Within a year, Manchester United were unrecognisable. What followed was one of the great falls in sport: nine managers, more than a billion pounds spent, and a giant that could no longer be trusted to win a match it should. Who Is Killing Manchester United? is a clear-eyed, rigorously researched investigation into ...

'Jaw-dropping revelations . . . The incredible story of [Man United] laid bare in new book' – Daily Mail 'A gripping tale, full of insight. Blackhurst is an enormously talented writer' – City A.M. From Chris Blackhurst, the former Editor of the Independent, comes The World's Biggest Cash...

The third and most complete edition of How to Become a Football Agent yet.With the ever-evolving nature of the beautiful game, the authors have updated the entire book to ensure HOW TO BECOME A FOOTBALL AGENT: 3rd Edition provides an all-encompassing insight into how to become, and succeed as, a football agent in the current landscape. With new forewords from World Cup Winner Mesut Özil and former Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs, the new edition also features brand new chapters covering an exclusive and detailed insight into: the new FIFA regulations an agent’s work in ...

O que é necessário para levar uma equipe ao máximo sucesso e mantê-la no topo por um bom tempo? Sir Alex Ferguson é um dos poucos líderes que sabem de fato a resposta a essa pergunta. Nos 38 anos em que atuou como técnico de futebol, ele alcançou a impressionante marca de 49 troféus e fez do Manchester United uma das maiores marcas do mundo. Nesse audiolivro franco e inspirador, ele revela os segredos por trás de sua carreira repleta de recordes.

A random knock at the front door five years ago sent my entire world into a tailspin, when I lost my v-card to my Dad’s best friend; a man who was larger than life itself. For him, the night was a blur and a rebound attempt gone awry..But for me it was one that I would never forget. Wayne Simms is a famous soccer player turned Billionaire soccer club owner. His piercing eyes and muscular frame are synonymous with a Greek god, and I am a mere mortal under his command. Five years later, through a chance encounter, I come to realize that my new next door neighbor is not only the man that I ...

How does Real Madrid turn football success into enduring financial power, and then convert that financial power back into sporting dominance? The Real Madrid Financial Model offers a rigorous, accessible analysis of the business architecture behind the world’s most commercially powerful football institution. Moving beyond transfer headlines and trophy counts, the book explains how revenue, wages, player trading, debt, regulation, infrastructure and academy development interact within one long-term economic system. Readers will examine the club’s revenue engine, including matchday income...

How much is Real Madrid really worth, and what makes the world’s most powerful football institution so valuable? Valuing Real Madrid provides a rigorous financial analysis of the club’s global brand, enterprise value, player assets, commercial model and redeveloped Santiago Bernabéu. Moving beyond headline rankings and speculative transfer figures, Alessio Faccia explains how professional valuation methods can be applied to a member-owned football club with no publicly traded shares. The book examines how Real Madrid converts sporting success into sponsorship income, broadcasting ...

This is the story of Jacques Ladouceur he was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He rose from object poverty to the highest level of pro soccer in the world. He traces his fascinating journey from playing soccer on the streets of Haiti as a boy, through his career as a professional soccer player in Athens, Greece, and the USA. He learned the true value of life, family, and making choices.