And in a different kind of byline for me, the friends at Lit Hub let me pick five soccer books -- non-LONG GAME division -- to get you ready for the World Cup.
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Soccer derives its beauty from its simplicity. Twenty-players and a ball on a rectangle of grass; put the ball in the other team’s goal; don’t use your hands. What makes soccer popular, I believe, …