Barça

The rise and fall of the club that built modern football

Simon Kuper

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Short Books Ltd
23 June 2022

Sports teams & clubs; Football (Soccer, Association football)

"'This is a masterfully written history of the world's greatest football club. Mes que un book!' - GARY LINEKER

From the bestselling co-author of Soccernomics comes the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful football club in the world - and how that envied position now hangs in the balance.

Bar a is not just the world's most popular sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organisations on the planet. With almost 250 million followers on social media and 4 million visitors to its Camp Nou stadium each year, there's little wonder its motto is 'More than a club'. But it was not always so. In the past three decades, Barcelona has transformed from regional team to global powerhouse, becoming a model of sporting excellence and a consistent winner of silverware.

Simon Kuper unravels exactly how these transformations took place. He outlines the organisational structure behind the club's business decisions, and details the work of its coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists who have revolutionised the sporting world. And, of course, he studies the towering influence of the club's two greatest legends, Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi.

Like many leading global businesses, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting few outsiders a view behind the scenes. But, after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctum and to the people who strive daily to keep Barcelona at the top.

Erudite, personal, and capturing all the latest successes and upheavals, his portrait of this incredible institution goes beyond football to understand Bar a as a unique social, cultural, and political phenomenon.

""I began my research thinking I was going to be explaining Barca's rise to greatness, and I have, but I've also ended up charting the decline and fall."""

By: Simon Kuper
Imprint: Short Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 313g
ISBN: 9781780725543
ISBN 10: 178072554X
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 23 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Kuper is the co-author of bestselling Soccernomics. His first book, Football Against the Enemy, won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and is acknowledged as one of football's seminal books. Simon writes a weekly sports column in the Financial Times and has previously written football columns for the Times and Observer.

Reviews for Barça: The rise and fall of the club that built modern football

'Ultimately this superb book is about far more than football - it's about Spain, about Catalan culture, about the psychology of management, about developing youngsters, and crucially about the three remarkable men who have shaped the modern game - Cruyff, Messi and Guardiola.' * Daily Mail * 'Thisisamasterfullywrittenhistoryoftheworld'sgreatestfootballclub. Mesqueunbook!' -- GARY LINEKER 'Simon Kuper's Barca has it all: riveting storytelling,superb analysis, non-partisan investigation and,perhaps best of all, it's shot through with Simon'swonderfully dryhumour.Simplyunmissable.' -- AMY RAPHAEL