Challenges

Football Books












The football season is over, for some of us that might be a good thing, but for those of you missing your footie why not catch up on some football-related reading. Choose from both fiction and non-fiction reads.


Keeper by Mal Peet is a fictional story set in South America and tells the story of El Gato (the Cat) who rose from humble beginnings to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper, and the mysterious Keeper, his mentor, who haunted a football pitch deep in the forest.


Golden girl Grace by Narinder Dhami (who also wrote Bend it like Beckham) is the story of teenager Grace who is the star striker of her football team. But Grace is having to grow up fast, her parents are divorcing and she has discovered - boys! What will she do when her father decides to move away? Will she move or is the football team more important to her than she realises?


If you want to improve your football skills whilst there is no football to watch try Football by Clive Gifford which gives you a step-by-step guide to essential football techniques - tackling, shooting, defending and heading are all covered.










See these books and more


on display in the Library.