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Soccernomics is a book filled with all the questions on football that you would want answered. It is an essential guide for all football lovers that has been written using an economics brain and a football writer’s skills. Summary of the Book Ardent fans of football have had many questions that they needed an answer to, and even then there would be many pending. Here is a book that attempts to solve this for fans. The book has answers to several questions that have been asked by fans. All the questions have been answered using high-powered analytical tools for topics of everyday football. The kind of questions that are answered in this book include: why England loses, why Germany and Brazil win, how Spain manages to conquer the world, whether penalties are any good, and the price of success and the true cost of failure. The book allows you to look at data in many ways and reveals the many truths about football. The explanations in this book are given in a manner that has never been explained in any newspaper. Readers will have a new way of looking at football upon reading this book. About Simon Kuper Simon Kuper is a British author who writes about sports 'from an anthropologic perspective'. He usually writes about football and the culture that surrounds it. About Stefan Szymanski Stefan Szymanski is a professor of sport management at the University of Michigan. He has written five books, and has helped co-author Soccernomics.