How To Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game Audiobook by Nick Greene

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Title: How To Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game
Genres: History, Europe, Non-Fiction, Social Science
Author: Nick Greene
Narrator: Michael Butler Murray
Release date: 08-10-2026
Length: 11:10:43
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media

Description:
A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world, just in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America, from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius

In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theory, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, and an Anglican priest to explain schisms—how American football, soccer, and rugby could all develop from the field games of rowdy nineteenth-century British schoolboys.

Greene delves deep into what defines the game, how it developed,...