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This enlightening biography – the first for 30 years – follows Gary Lineker’s career, from the school report which said, 'He concentrates too much on football’ to his phenomenal goalscoring record and development as a media personality. Through meticulous research and interviews with teammates and opponents, coaches, journalists and commentators, journalist Chris Evans reveals the inside stories and backroom anecdotes from his early days at Leicester City; the big-money moves to Everton and Tottenham Hotspur; and the highs and lows of spells at Barcelona and Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan.

على السجادة الخضراء بزغ نجمه ليصبح بين ليلةٍ وضحاها حديث النّاس وليتغنّى الجميع بمهارته وبطريقة لعبه ويبدأون بالبحث عن تفاصيل حياته، ففي الفترة الأخيرة ومع موسم كأس العالم دخل اسم "محمد صلاح" وصورته كلَّ بيتٍ عربي..

في هذا الكتاب سنقترب من أسطورة الملاكمة أكثر لنلقي نظرة على حياته الشخصية، طفولته وعائلته، بداياته ومخاوفه، واهم أقواله التي تناقلها التاريخ إضافةً إلى الكثير من الأسرار التي لا يعرفها البعض عنه!

No one embodies winning more than Bill Belichick, the greatest football coach of all time. Over the past fifty years, Belichick has been a man of notoriously few words, believing that a coach should keep a low profile. After he left the Patriots in 2024, he briefly became a coach without a team. He spent that year writing down the principles he learned from his father, Navy football, and from his forty-nine-year coaching career. Belichick’s philosophy goes far beyond football.

Charlamos de El Rey Pelé, figura brasileña que para muchos es el más grande en el balompié; también revisamos la carrera del señor Tony Hawk, primer gran ídolo de los deportes extremos en la patineta y; por si fuera poco revisamos la carrera del Más Grande: Mohamed Ali.

Charlamos de Carlos Valderrama, el Pibe, icónico jugador colombiano de cabellera estrafalaria; Fernando Alonso, el piloto español que le dio nueva vida a Ferrari y; el ídolo Michael Jordan que nos enseñó que volar era posible.

Charlamos de Usain Bolt, el jamaicano que es el hombre más veloz del planeta. Diego A. Maradona, el 10, el Dios que para muchos es el mejor jugador de la historia y Michael Phelps, quien se adueñó de las albercas para hacerlas sus campos de juego.

Charlamos de Johan Cruyft, el símbolo holandés del futbol total y astro del futbol de los 70s; además hablamos del rey del golf Tiger Woods y de 'El Bambino' Babe Ruth, beisbolista que es uno de los primeros ídolos y héroes del deporte.

Dick McAuliffe was drafted into Major League Baseball at the age of 17 by the Detroit Tigers, and became a three-time MLB All Star, 1968 World Series Champion, and loving father with two wonderful kids.

Passée sa brutale éviction de Danone, Emmanuel Faber se pose dans un refuge des Alpes. Il raconte comment la montagne et l'escalade ont dessiné son itinéraire : l'orage en Oisans dans l'enfance, les falaises du Vercors à l'adolescence, seul dans la tempête une nuit d'hiver à ski, en collectif pour l'ouverture d'une nouvelle voie sur le granite corse. Il partage son expérience hors du commun de patron activiste et livre sa vision des enjeux d'aujourd'hui et demain.

In Warren Spahn, author Lew Freedman tells the story of this incredible lefty. Known for his supremely high leg kick, Spahn became one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history. However, the road wasn’t as easy as it would seem.

Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even balmier climes of central Florida, Red Barber, at the age of thirty-two, became one of New York City's most influential citizens as the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But behind all the base hits, balls, and strikes lies a compelling story that dramatizes the shifting expectations and roles of a public figure—the sports broadcaster—as he adapted to complex cultural changes throughout the course of twentieth-century American life.

Bob Bourne was everything a son wants to emulate—an NHL All-Star, a Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year,” a Stanley Cup champion. Justin Bourne followed in those huge footsteps, leading his teams in scoring year after year, and finally garnering an invitation to the New York Islanders’ training camp—the same team his father had played for.

At 6-foot-7 and 285 pounds, Aaron Judge emerged as the biggest story in baseball in 2017 with his monstrous home runs and record-breaking ability. A three-sport athlete in high school and a Division I ballplayer at Fresno State, the Californian was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round in 2013 and made it to the majors by August 2016. Homering in his first major league at-bat and starting in right field straight out of spring training in 2017, he gave Yankees fans hope for the future, along with "Baby Bombers" teammates such as Gary Sanchez.

Cross Stitched is an inside look at baseball legend Jason Grimsley’s wild and unbelievable life. Jason shares hilarious stories about scaling the outside of a hotel at three in the morning while also opening up about hardships he’s faced-- including a botched suicide attempt and the near-destruction of his marriage.

Built for Speed: Senna is the first cinema-of-the-mind experience in Formula One racing. It is the true story of Formula One's most legendary driver, three-time world champion Ayrton Senna. Go inside the cockpit with Senna and experience his story told like never before. Meet his family, friends, and many lovers, and come to understand why he was beloved by his country of Brazil and the world over.

Vom Osdorfer Born in die weite Welt. Was für viele Jugendliche ein Traum bleibt, ist für Kasim Edebali Wirklichkeit geworden – eine Karriere als Profisportler. Mit viel Herzblut und immer 110 Prozent Einsatz schafft er mit 18 Jahren den Sprung über den großen Teich. Nach Stationen an der Kimball Union Academy und einem Sportstipendium am renommierten Boston College heißt die nächste Station: NFL.

When the first lockdown came, finding himself without cricket for the first time in his life, Geoffrey Boycott sat down and began to write a retrospective warts-and-all diary of each of his Test match appearances. It is illuminating and unsparing, characterized by Boycott’s astonishing memory, famous forthrightness and unvarnished, sometimes lacerating, honesty.

Tom Ballard fu "figlio della montagna" nel senso più profondo del termine. Non è un'ardita metafora, ma la sintesi di un rapporto che è stato prima genetico e poi animato da una passione esclusiva, irrefrenabile, assoluta. Era figlio di Alison Hargreaves, "la più forte delle donne alpiniste", secondo Reinhold Messner. E anche una delle più controverse: aveva scalato l'Eiger tre mesi prima di dare alla luce Tom, sollevando un vespaio di polemiche.