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The Barcelona Complex
- Lionel Messi and the Making—and Unmaking—of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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With rare and unrivaled access, best-selling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world—and how that era is now ending.
FC Barcelona is not just the world’s highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organizations on the planet. At last count, it had approximately 214 million social media followers, more than any other sports club except Real Madrid CF—and by one earlier measure, more than all 32 NFL teams combined. It has more in common with multinational megacompanies like Netflix or small nation-states than it does with most soccer teams. No wonder its motto is “More than a club”. But it was not always so. In the past three decades, Barcelona went from a regional team to a global powerhouse, becoming a model of sustained excellence and beautiful soccer and a consistent winner of championships. Simon Kuper unravels exactly how this transformation took place, paying special attention to the club’s two biggest stars, Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi, who is arguably the greatest soccer player of all time. Messi joined Barça at age 13 and, more than anyone, has been the engine and standard-bearer of Barcelona’s glory. But his era is coming to an end—and with it, a once-in-a-lifetime golden run. This book charts Barça’s rise and fall.
Like many world-beating organizations, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting few outsiders access to the Camp Nou, its legendary home stadium. But after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper was given access to the inner sanctum and the people behind the scenes who strive daily to keep Barcelona at the top. Erudite, personal, and capturing all the latest upheavals, his portrait of this incredible institution goes beyond soccer to understand FC Barcelona as a unique social, cultural, and political phenomenon.
This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains the cast of characters from the book.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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"Founded in 1899, the FC Barcelona soccer club (also known as Barça) from Spain’s Catalonia region is one of the sport's most famous franchises, with a rich history of dynamic coaches and managers, as well as superstars like Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi. Who better to explore this legacy than veteran British sports journalist Kuper (Soccernomics, 2009). His account delivers an insider's view of FC Barcelona.... Kuper vividly captures the unique cultural phenomenon that is FC Barcelona. A must for soccer fans.” (Booklist)
“Kuper translates his decades of coverage of the world’s highest-grossing sports club into a fascinating record of its legacy.... Brilliantly captures the business of sports. [The Barcelona Complex] is likely to be the definitive account of the business side of the famous club.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Essential reading for anyone interested in innovation or high performance.... [The Barcelona Complex] is both a debunking and a restoration.... Kuper diverts our eye away from the dazzling but familiar skyline and instead takes us inside the cathedral close.” (New Statesman)
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Great for coaches!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-29-18
De: Grant Wahl
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Soccernomics
- De: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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Why does England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America play the sport internationally... and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer.
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Interesting but older version of the book
- De Hansi en 05-08-13
De: Simon Kuper, y otros
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Messi
- The Definitive Biography Fully Updated to Include Messi's First Season at PSG
- De: Guillem Balague
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 27 h y 53 m
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The story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Barcelona and Argentina's Lionel Messi. Despite all the fame and adulation, remarkably little is known about Lionel Messi, the modest and intensely private footballing genius. Just how did the boy from Rosario, Argentina, become the world's greatest player? Guillem Balague has had unprecedented access to Messi's inner circle: his coaches, teammates and family. In addition, Pep Guardiola has provided exclusive analysis of the player. The result is an authoritative and compelling account of the wonderful mystery that is Messi.
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In-depth look at Lionel Messi
- De Nicholas Beato en 01-16-22
De: Guillem Balague
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Pep Guardiola
- The Evolution
- De: Marti Perarnau
- Narrado por: Thomas Judd
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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For three extraordinary seasons at Bayern Munich, Marti Perarnau was given total access around the German super club - to its players, its backroom staff, its board members and, above all, its manager, Pep Guardiola. In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed account of Guardiola's first full season at Bayern, Pep Confidential, Perarnau now lifts the lid on the Catalan's whole tenure in Bavaria.
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Total story. Total football. Total Pep.
- De Michal Kuczek en 08-01-17
De: Marti Perarnau
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Expected Goals
- The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
- De: Rory Smith
- Narrado por: Simon Darwen
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it’s not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it’s the people behind them. This is the story of modern football’s great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game.
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Trove of information
- De KaraS en 03-15-24
De: Rory Smith
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Quiet Leadership
- Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches
- De: Carlo Ancelotti
- Narrado por: Richard Lumsden
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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Carlo Ancelotti is one of the greatest managers of all time, with five Champions League titles to his name. Yet his approach could not be further from the aggressive theatricals favoured by many of his rivals. His understated style has earned him the fierce loyalty of players like David Beckham, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Candy for any leader who also loves football.
- De Christopher en 05-27-16
De: Carlo Ancelotti
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Barca
- The Making of the Greatest Team in the World
- De: Graham Hunter
- Narrado por: Graham Hunter
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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Barcelona is the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation, and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the untold inside story of how the best and most loved football team in the world came to redefine how the game is played. We start with the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley, the game that ended the debate about whether Barcelona was the greatest team in the world and began a new one: are they the best ever?
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In-depth analysis of the greatest team ever
- De Michalis Petrou en 01-09-18
De: Graham Hunter
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The Barcelona Inheritance
- The Evolution of Winning Soccer Tactics from Cruyff to Guardiola
- De: Jonathan Wilson
- Narrado por: Charlie Anson
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Barcelona's style of play—pressing and possessing—is the single biggest influence on modern soccer. In The Barcelona Inheritance, Jonathan Wilson reveals how and why this came to pass, offering an analysis of the evolution of soccer tactics and style. In the late 1990s, Johan Cruyff's Dream Team was disintegrating and the revolutionary manager had departed, but his style birthed to a new generation of thinkers, including Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho. Today, their teams top the Premier League, marking the latest installment in a rivalry that can be traced back 25 years.
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Too much about the “Special One”
- De Bob Seavers en 06-30-21
De: Jonathan Wilson
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Messi vs. Ronaldo
- One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game
- De: Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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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 multi-billion-dollar industry, paralleling the stunning rise, overwhelming excesses, and uncertain future of modern international soccer.
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Geez. Learn proper name pronunciation
- De steve finkelstein en 01-11-24
De: Jonathan Clegg, y otros
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Intensity
- Inside Liverpool FC: Our Story
- De: James Carroll, Pep Lijnders
- Narrado por: Luke Francis
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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Liverpool's blistering brand of football (soccer) has revived a sleeping giant, energized its vast army of fans, entertained crowds at home and all over the world, and redefined coaching excellence. Now Pep tells the inside story of a season which, even by LFC standards, has been truly sensational. Week by week as the drama unfolds it's all here: from pre-season to unforgettable finale; great goals and grueling schedules; passionate team-talks and personal reflections; unsung heroes and Kop idols; the pride and the passion, the joy and the heartache… and the fun.
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Surprisingly engaging
- De Diogo Ramalho en 05-29-24
De: James Carroll, y otros
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Pep Confidential
- Inside Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich
- De: Marti Perarnau
- Narrado por: Thomas Judd
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Martí Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14. This audiobook represents the first time in the modern era that a writer has got this close to one of the elite teams of world football. At the invitation of Pep Guardiola, he shadowed the Catalan, his staff and his superstar players during training and on matchdays. Bayern smashed domestic records on their way to the double, but were humiliated by Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final.
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inspirational
- De Ruth en 09-14-17
De: Marti Perarnau
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Zonal Marking
- From Ajax to Zidane, the Making of Modern Soccer
- De: Michael W. Cox
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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A mazy dribble through the recent history of European soccer, showing how shifting styles and influence have shaped the game. In the early 1990s, the Dutch footballing philosophy was worshiped across the continent. Then the baton passed to the Italians, who clearly boasted Europe's strongest league. But when France started winning everything at international level its national academy became the template for others, until suddenly, almost out of nowhere, Europe's most revered player and manager both hailed from Portugal.
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Historical perspective not tactical
- De Jon en 02-11-20
De: Michael W. Cox
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The Ball Is Round
- A Global History of Soccer
- De: David Goldblatt, David Goldblatt - foreword
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 38 h y 58 m
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In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport - now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.
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Dry and Boring
- De Kyle en 05-25-22
De: David Goldblatt, y otros
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Pep’s City
- De: Lu Martín, Pol Ballús
- Narrado por: Thomas Judd
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Over three seasons in England, Pep Guardiola has built something the Premier League has never seen before: a team that dominates games like no other, scoring goals and collecting points and trophies at record-breaking pace. Throughout that journey, the Spanish journalists Lu Martín and Pol Ballús have been embedded with the club, reporting this inside account of how a phenomenal team was constructed: from the recruitment of Guardiola himself, to the backroom staff that provide the platform for his team and the superstar players that have set a new standard in British football.
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Great listen!
- De Turgon23 en 11-02-23
De: Lu Martín, y otros
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The Real Madrid Way
- How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet
- De: Steven G. Mandis
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Real Madrid is the most successful sports team on the planet. The soccer club has more trophies than any other sports team, including 11 UEFA Champions League trophies. However, the story behind the triumph goes beyond the players and coaches. Generally unnoticed, a management team consisting mostly of outsiders took the team from near bankruptcy to the most valuable sports organization in the world. How did Real Madrid achieve such extraordinary success? Columbia Business School adjunct professor Steven G. Mandis investigates.
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Football, business, analytics
- De Anonymous User en 10-09-23
De: Steven G. Mandis
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Angels with Dirty Faces
- How Argentinian Soccer Defined a Nation and Changed the Game Forever
- De: Jonathan Wilson
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
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In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol, the fusion of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats.
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Very good and interesting. Probably needs new chapters for the most recent World Cup and Copa America
- De Anonymous User en 07-20-24
De: Jonathan Wilson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Barcelona Complex
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- Steve Adams
- 04-01-23
Fantastic book for the serious soccer fan
Excellence history of FC, Barcelona’s, and the makings of this great club with this rise and fall.
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- Elizabeth
- 11-29-22
The beautiful game
I was hesitant to get this book, thinking it was an institutional history of Barca with a bit of Messi thrown in. It’s so much more, a loving, probing assessment of what makes great clubs and great players come alive and make us dream, if only for a time. Wonderful narrator as well. Should appeal to all sports fans, not just football fans, not just Barca fans.
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- steve finkelstein
- 10-27-23
Fantastic
Simon Kuper does a fantastic job with writing about futbol. And the narrator, Steve West, does a wonderful job with the book.
A great combination.
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- Anonymous boyfriend
- 09-01-21
Every soccer fan should read
Although it requires some prior knowledge (lots of name dropping) this is a fascinating sociopolitical inspection of FC Barcelona. As a Liverpool fan I genuinely appreciated learning more about the business of int’l football, the history of the modern game and about individual legends. 10/10 would recommend
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- Igor
- 02-06-23
brutally honest but necessary book
if you prefer living with your eyes closed, this book is not for you. But if you truly want to understand the breathtaking journey from the low point to the impossible heights and back to the abyss, then this is your book. It is beautifully written. The chapters on Cruyff and his innovations are absolutely amazing. The chapters on Messi are insightful. The chapters on the club's demise will surely make you cry. You don't need to be a football pundit to enjoy the book. I'm a complete novice and could not put the book down. It will teach you all you need to know in order to appreciate the beautiful game. The narrator is great.
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- David C.
- 11-03-21
A comprehensive history of Barca
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Kuper goes deep into the world of football and Barcelona. I thought the insights into training methods of Cruyff and what he created at La Masia were particularly interesting. Drills I did as an American player in the 90s came straight from that philosophy and I never knew it. I dinged the narrator a star because of the awkward pronunciations of well known figures in the game.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-11-22
Amazing
The book is a colorful story. Wonderful detail provided. I enjoyed it start to finish.
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