Last Minute Christmas Gifts For Your Football Fanatic

Look­ing for those last minute gifts for that Cal­cio lov­ing fam­ily mem­ber?   Why not send a sub­scrip­tion to Soc­cer Italia mag­a­zine or visit the local book­store and pur­chase such titles as,

Mad For It by Andy Mitten

Mad For It cov­ers the world’s biggest, old­est and most famous foot­ball der­bies and Serie A Talk will have a book review early next year cov­er­ing the most notable chap­ters and sto­ries doc­u­mented by Four­FourTwo mag­a­zine writer Andy Mit­ten. Order It Today.

Invert­ing the Pyra­mid by Jonathan Wilson,

EPLtalk — Invert­ing The Pyra­mid: The His­tory Of Foot­ball Tac­tics. The first-ever com­pre­hen­sive his­tory of foot­ball tac­tics has already been crit­i­cally acclaimed after being named to the short list for Sports Book Of The Year Award in Eng­land. Writ­ten by Guardian jour­nal­ist Jonathan Wil­son, the book is a must-read for fans inter­ested in tac­tics.  Order It Today.

If you think your fan prefers some­thing more visual, take a peek at Soc­cer Italia mag­a­zine.

 The folks at Soc­cer Italia mag­a­zine were kind enough to send out sev­eral sam­ples, includ­ing one of their Soc­cer 360 pub­li­ca­tion which is pri­mar­ily an exam­i­na­tion of game and play­ers across all leagues. 

In their bread and but­ter pub­li­ca­tion, Soc­cer Italia mag­a­zine, the cov­er­age of Serie A is quite good con­tain­ing team pull­outs, high qual­ity images and arti­cles not only cov­er­ing the cur­rent scud­etto race but spe­cial fea­tures on his­toric events and past super­stars as well. 

 The mag­a­zine also keeps a close eye on the Azzurri (The Ital­ian National squad) and this season’s Race To The Fin­ish issue fea­tured, “Fill­ing the void” an arti­cle which dis­cusses the dif­fi­cul­ties Italy is fac­ing in find­ing an ade­quate backup and poten­tial replace­ment between the sticks for elder states­man Gigi Buffon. 

I eagerly await the discussion, “Filling the void”, of the back-four in an issue not yet writ­ten. Clearly old-time secu­rity of Baresi, Costacurta, Mal­dini, Nesta and very soon Can­navaro is of major con­cern for Azzurri tifosi so come on Soc­cer Italia impress us even fur­ther with your rel­e­vant cov­er­age of this great game.

From all of us at Serie A Talk a Very Merry Christ­mas or enjoy­able feast day that you’ll be celebrating.

(thanks goes out to Mario at Soc­cer Italia for his help)

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