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The World Is a Ball by John Doyle

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4.0

There are no other reviews, so I thought I'd write one. This book was a fun read. Any soccer fan (even if you're not a hardcore fan) I think would enjoy this book because it has amazingly descriptive passages of what it's like to go to the World Cup and the Euro. All sorts of madcap craziness happens and it's all in good fun. People have these pre-conceived ideas about hooliganism but that is truly in the past. This book definitely makes me want to go to a WC game and that's on my bucket list now.

It is a tad long towards the end, but other than that it's a great read if you enjoy the sport. It's part love-letter to soccer, part travelogue and works pretty well. Towards the end you feel like you've overloaded on WCs and games but other than that it's good.
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