Jean-Baptiste Guégan is a member of the Sport Business Observatory, a consultant in the geopolitics of sport, teacher, lecturer and author, in particular, of the Geopolitical Atlas of Sport (with Lukas Aubin).
We didn’t forbid ourselves anything. Biographies, works on the history of sport or on the various developments in sport business, they are all there to offer you the most beautiful of summers.
While the national championships are at a standstill, the transfer window occupies our days. However, instead of dealing with the endless transfer rumours, there is a book that you absolutely must get. These are the 200 greatest dates in football that So Foot, or rather the immense Chérif Ghemmour, has chosen for you. Pillar of the magazine, incredible storyteller, the latter returns with the most beautiful football book of the year. A wonder.
After having enchanted us with his biography of Johann Cruyff published by Hugo Sport, he offers us the best way to understand football culture or (re)discover it. Music, geopolitics, history with a capital H, everything comes together to offer us the most beautiful footballing journey possible. The 200 dates selected are as many dives into what makes the strength of the “most beautiful of sports”.
Whether on the beach, on the plane, for your children or to relive the great moments of football from the 1930 World Cup to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, do not hesitate to get So Foot, our 200 dates.
It is the essential investment with flip flops and sunscreen. We come out of this book smarter. After reveling in this chronicle of nearly a century of world football, you will see the game differently.
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For cycling enthusiasts, Moi Lucho, the important thing is to stay alive is a book to get. It is one of the strongest biographies of the year with Alberto Contador, El Pistolero.
Luc Leblanc, the immense French cyclist, reveals himself as never before. First there is the (re)discovery of an exceptional athlete, French champion in 1992, world champion on the road in 1994 and three times Top 10 of the Tour de France. That of a career that went through the horrors of cycling in the dark years of the 1990s. From Castorama to Festina, from the failure of the Groupement to Polti, it is the crossing of a world affected by doping that is taking shape. .
But above all, what makes the strength of this book is the man Luc Leblanc who dares to tell his story. He who confides in this brother who died too soon, he who looks back on his desire to end it and this post-career where ruin and depression prevail over memories.
For all these reasons, Moi Lucho, the important thing is to stay alive deserves attention and reading.
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Eduardo Camavinga, Cama by his nickname, is a player about whom we know almost nothing apart from his performances on the pitch. From Rennes to Real Madrid, his trajectory is nevertheless fascinating. Like his family trajectory or the place he was able to occupy with the Blues of Didier Deschamps. At 23, the footballer has already managed to win a Champions League and play in a World Cup final. Earlier than Kylian Mbappé on certain points, the man is the anti-Paul Pogba. As discreet and decisive as a leader, the midfielder was able to seduce his world, without needing to reveal it.
Eduardo Camavinga, Solar Blue, fills this void with the limits posed by the exercise for a player still active. Signed by the duo Cyril Collot and Lucas Caioli, the biography looks back on his youthful years and explores every facet of a short career that has yet to be written. We would like to know what happens next.
The book is pleasant and proves to be ideal for satisfying his need for reading-pleasure. To have a good time or approach football differently for those who put off reading, Eduardo Camavinga, Solar Blue is a perfect recommendation for the summer.
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For lovers of demanding reading and for all those who want to know more about Soviet and American sport during the Cold War, specialist historian Sylvain Dufraisse has an excellent surprise in store for us.
His Sports History of the Cold War published by Nouveau Monde is a success. Rich, brilliant and above all of a rare clarity, the whole offers us the first synthesis of its kind. Scanning the entire period, it returns to the instrumentalization of the sporting phenomenon by the two greats. From the strategy of Soviet influence through sport to the horrors of the “race for medals”, he dissects the means mobilized by States to make sport and their champions powerful vectors of their influence and their superiority. .
A place of expression of the power and antagonism at work between the two superpowers, this Sports History of the Cold War is recommended reading for the summer and a first entry to understand the geopolitical logics that drive sport. Today.
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For rugby fanatics, Solar invites us to come back, from the pen of Gilles Navarro, to the art of the game in movement which made the success of Stade Toulousain. Recent Champion of France, the club of Antoine Dupont and Romain Ntamack knew how to make the pass and audacity its trademarks.
In addition to its training and the support of the local community, Stade Toulousain can be proud of 22 Brennus shields and 5 European Cups. This record, which makes it the finest and most impressive in club rugby, is partly due to the obsession with the game and the pass that has been part of Toulouse’s DNA for more than 70 years.
What is called the “game of hands, game of Toulouse” is told here by the menu. Questioning the way to “play rugby well”, Stade Toulousain, the art of the game in motion returns to the spectacular dimension of the typical oval of the Pink City. An often spectacular style and a formidable efficiency.
From Paul Blanc, the former player of the club promoted to coach of the red and black, who laid the foundations to Pierre Villepreux, Jean-Claude Skrela or Guy Novès, this book will allow you to understand why the Stade Toulousain is a machine to play that constantly adapts to win. A book to slip into your suitcase if you like the beautiful game and this gentleman’s sport where the people of Toulouse win in the end.
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