Galetti professor of sport management at the university of michigan. Authors simon kuper and stefan szymanski delve into soccer by abandoning all conventional wisdom about the sport and studying it strictly by the numbers. Home about us the team stefan szymanski stefan is a codirector in the michigan centre for sport management, university of michigan. Stefan is a codirector in the michigan centre for sport management, university of michigan. May 24, 2012 soccernomics is the fully revised and updated edition of why england lose, with new chapters on football finances and the rise of spain as the preeminent team of our times. This is well worth a read for any english football fan. We hope it will be a venue for some of our new thinking on football, money and data. Stefan szymanski is a professor of sport management at the university of michigan. Coauthored by simon kuper and stefan symanski, soccernomics provides an air of levelheadedness that challenges commonly held misperceptions prevalent throughout all sectors. Stefan szymanski, coauthor of the bestselling soccernomics, tackles every football fans burning questions in money and football. He writes about sports from an anthropologic perspective. Stefan szymanski soccer politics the politics of football. With soccernomics, the fts indispensable simon kuper and topflight sports economist stefan szymanski bring scrupulous economic analysis and statistical.
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Kuper was born in uganda of south african parents, and moved to leiden in the netherlands as a child, where his father, adam kuper, was a lecturer in anthropology at leiden university. Soccernomics is the fully revised and updated edition of why england lose, with new chapters on football finances and the rise of spain as the preeminent team of our times. Stefan szymanski has 15 books on goodreads with 33763 ratings. Apr 26, 2011 soccernomics, full title, soccernomics. Stefan szymanski ann arbor, michigan professional profile. Soccernomics by simon kuper, stefan szymanski waterstones.
Stefan szymanski, coauthor of the bestselling soccernomics, tackles every soccer fans burning questions in money and soccer. Why england loses, why germany and brazil win, and why the u. Its a fascinating and easy read, engaging despite being crammed full of statistics and facts. Soccernomics 2009 applies economic and data analysis to explore the way the sport of soccer is played, watched and run. We use cookies on this site to enhance the visitor experience.
Why england loses, why spain, germany, and brazil win, and why the us, japan, australia and even iraq are destined to become the kings of the worlds most popular s kuper nation books. Soccernomics simon kuper and stefan szymanski soccernomics world cup edition is an updated version of this book, published to coincide with this years world cup in brazil. Stefan szymanskis most popular book is soccernomics. Galetti professor of sport management at the university of michigans school of kinesiology. Our collaboration is a match of science and art, matching the numbers to a convincing story, something which. Consultancy, research, ideas soccernomics soccernomics agency. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. He completed his phd in the department of economics, birkbeck college, university of. Static and dynamic competitive balance in european and north american sports leagues, iase conference papers 0006, international. Came highly recommended and its certainly worth a read, but i found it dry and bouncing around in places. Rummaging through the mountain that is amazons collection of books, i spotted a blue number which had the word soccernomics as part of the subtitle.
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Soccernomics 09 by kuper, simon szymanski, stefan paperback 2009 kuper on. Books by stefan szymanski stefan szymanski average rating 3. No matter what nation, club or even sport, really you support, youll walk away from this book with an insightful new point of view that will cause you to never look at the game quite the same way again. Soccernomics by simon kuper and stefan szymanski looks beyond these obvi ous issues. Jon szymanski vp of software quality assurance beacon. Jan 30, 2015 stefan szymanski is a professor of sport management at the university of michigan. He has written five books, including the bestseller soccernomics with simon kuper. Between 20082012 he was a professor of economics at cass business school, city university, london. Soccernomics is the intellectuals guide to football, written for the layman. The book soccernomics by simon kuper and stefan szymanski contains many potential errors in the interpretation and analysis of data related to professional. Praise for soccernomics soccernomics is the most intelligent book ever written about soccer. Why china doesnt dominate soccer the washington post. View phone numbers, addresses, public records, background check reports and possible arrest records for steven szymanski. Using hard fact and statistics to cut through emotive cliche and outmoded thinking, soccernomics not only sheds light upon football, it illuminates much about the world we.
I checked for the author and saw stefan szymanskis name onehalf of the brains behind soccernomics, the definitive study footballs relationship with economics. Stefan has a global reputation and has acted as a consultant to government and to major sports organisations such as the fia motor sport, uefa football and the icc cricket. Stefan began researching the economics of professional football in 1989. Soccernomics simon kuper and stefan szymanski senior reader.
Soccernomics simon kuper and stefan szymanski senior. Money and soccer is a followup to soccernomics, a 2009 bestseller that szymanski, a professor of sports management at the university of michigan. Soccernomics previously published as why england lose answers them. Steven is a member of the assurance services department, and provides clients with financial information by researching and analyzing accounts and preparing financial statements. Stefan szymanski is professor of economics and mba dean at cass business school in london. From the abolition of the maximum wage in the 1960s, through to the impact of tv money both at home and abroad in the 1990s and 2000s, szymanski explains how money, or lack of, affects your. Soccernomics by simon kuper, stefan szymanski book summary. We wrote the book soccernomics because we believed that systematic data analysis could tell us interesting things about football. In their new book soccernomics, to be published in the united states on tuesday, the author simon kuper and the economist stefan szymanski do for soccer what moneyball did for baseball. Jul 24, 2017 rummaging through the mountain that is amazons collection of books, i spotted a blue number which had the word soccernomics as part of the subtitle. The authors, a sports journalist for the financial times and a. San francisco chronicle many explanations of englands poor form can be found in the book soccernomics in a segment entitled why england loses. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over.