World Football Commentaries: My Published Game Reports

2. La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Serie A, Premier League Fixtures, Live Scores and Results.

Calendario/Result. = Fixtures and Results. | Clasific. = Table. | Jornada = Match Day. Equipos = Teams (With links to their rosters.) | Noticias = News in Spanish. Directo = Match tracker of La Primera and La Segunda. Cronica (Document icon) = Match tracker with detailed graphical statistics for selected games. A = Click for preliminary line-ups. | F = Click for Full Time match commentaries. Anterior = Previous week. | Siguiente = Next week. | Todas = Pop-up calendar of all fixtures by the week.

5. Book Reviews and Translated Excerpts

Steve Amoia is my favorite US-based reviewer of soccer books. His take on the new Klinsmann book by @Erik_Kirschbaum https://t.co/AZmtwM2qyB
— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) May 10, 2016

My Book Review Portfolio:

My portfolio also contains titles that are not always discussed in significant detail by English-speaking media such as the biographies of Sergio Agüero, Roberto Baggio, Stefano Borgonovo, Antonio Conte, Johan Cruyff, Alessandro Del Piero, Josep Guardiola, Jürgen Klopp, Lionel Messi, Andrea Pirlo, Mauricio Pochettino, Giuseppe Rossi, Arrigo Sacchi, Diego Simeone, Giovanni Trapattoni, and Javier Zanetti, respectively.

You will also find a review about Carlo Ancelotti's excellent book on tactics and Massimiliano Allegri's first literary project. A motivational book, "Goals," by Gianluca Vialli, is superb. There are excerpts from a factual novel, "Cercando Scirea", about the Juventus and Azzurri legend, Gaetano Scirea, by Gianluca Iovine. Lastly, a detailed look at Francesco Totti's humorous yet historical guidebook on ancient Rome that was a rare undertaking by an athlete.

"Calcio's Greatest Forwards" by George Rinaldi and "Juventus: A History in Black and White" by Adam Digby, are excellent journalistic endeavors. "MASTERS OF MODERN SOCCER" by Grant Wahl was another compelling project from a top journalist.

There are also two reviews with sporting themes outside of football: "30 Su 30" by La Gazzetta dello Sport's NBA reporter (he used to cover the Azzurri and Juventus for the same newspaper), Riccardo Pratesi, and "Con la testa e con il cuore si va ovunque" by Paralympian, Giusy Versace, who was a TV presenter on a football-themed program (Domenica Sportiva) and is now a member of the Italian Parliament.

6. Featured Review

Image credit: Viking.

My Review in Brief:

From Malmö to Milan, from Ajax to the Galaxy, with many other stops along the way, the Zlatan Express has roared across world football leaving behind an indelible imprint of audacious talent, brutal honesty, legendary goals, sensational media quotes, tremendous self-belief, 33 trophies, and most of all, hundreds of spell-bound and bewildered opponents in its quake.

Ibrahimović, to quote Massimo Moratti of Internazionale many years ago, "is the ultimate professional." He embodies street smarts, hard work, high intelligence along with his prodigious multi-lingual communication skills.

If a trophy were ever awarded for professionalism to one's craft, it would have Zlatan's name on it. The ultimate professional and a winner with a capital W.

--- Steve Amoia, World Football Commentaries

World Football Commentaries

Thursday, July 24, 2008

My Published Game Reports

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