James Horncastle – författare

A celebration of the beautiful game and its 100 greatest players, from the pre–World War II exploits of Dixie Dean to the modern-day genius of Kylian Mbappé and Lionel MessiThese players left legacies, redefined the game with trademark skills, and grew into national icons. They have their stats—the goals, the wins, the trophies—but, more importantly, they have their stories. One World Cup winner owned a nightclub that briefly transformed a corner of industrial Germany into one of the hippest places around. An Austrian forward’s death is still shrouded in mystery. A striker who might have become a telephone technician had he not been spotted playing soccer was eventually elected president of his country. And there are unanswered questions. How did Pelé’s Brazil shirt from the 1958 World Cup quarterfinal go missing in a Welsh school? Which goalkeeper was so good that one opponent considered scoring against him akin to “winning a trophy”?Through extensive research and interviews, The Athletic soccer staff, led by Oliver Kay and James Horncastle, discovered angles and tales that shine a new light on the sport’s most compelling characters.They faced an impossible riddle, too: Of the thousands of players to hit the pitch, who is the best? Their efforts to find the answer took the foremost sports newsroom on a journey, and what emerges is more than a ranking. Through all-new, vivid portraits of each athlete, The Soccer 100 is a tribute to the greatest players to have ever graced the most popular sport on the planet.

Bringing together an international, multidisciplinary cast of scholars, this book provides an examination of the ways in which the natural environment and human societies have interacted throughout history in the Greek lands. Using Greece as a case study, it traces this complex relationship from antiquity to the present. An Environmental History of Greece also explores various solutions to climatic challenges and environmental changes throughout history, as well as evolving philosophical views of the environment.The book looks at how, from ancient times, people living in the Mediterranean have encountered and confronted climatic challenges, including volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, fires, and drought. It considers how Greek stories of climatic trials have been documented over the centuries and subsequently absorbed into the nation’s history and culture. The volume’s contributors analyse how various institutions and stakeholders viewed the Greek landscape and governed the Greek land, with the perceived environmental roles of the Orthodox Church and the political and economic elites considered as part of this. Lastly, the authors examine how past perceptions of the environment continue to impact our assessments of the globe in the age of polycrisis.