Golazo!: The Beautiful Game from the Aztecs to the World Cup: The Complete History of How Soccer Shaped Latin America by Andrea Campomar
“The world is divided into two groups of people: those who look forward to the World Cup every four years, and those who don’t realize they’re soccer fans until the World Cup starts. For the latter, those recent converts to the soccer religion, here is a reading list you’ll want to page through before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, so you too can become a soccer expert.” Fusion

A Definitive Reading Guide To The 2014 World Cup
“In Brilliant Orange, the English writer David Winner’s celebrated study of Dutch soccer culture, he quotes voetbal-loving artist Jeroen Henneman on the subject of the Brazilian game: ‘I was so disappointed when I went to Brazil,’ he tells Winner, describing his first trip to the country that will host this summer’s World Cup. ‘I’d thought: finally I will see the great Brazilian football! I expected to see a very ‘roomy’ football. But they play in the most boring way, on technique, only to show off… So slow! They go forward, they go back. Some do little tricks, nice little things. But it is not football.’ It is not football.” Huffingtonpost