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Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson is the author of eight books, including The Names Heard Long Ago and Inverting the Pyramid, which was named NSC Football Book of the Year in 2009 and won the Premio Antonio Ghirelli prize as Italian soccer book of the year in 2013. His books Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football; The Anatomy of England; and The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper were shortlisted for the NSC award in 2007, 2011, and 2013. Wilson is the founder and editor of the soccer quarterly The Blizzard, writes for the Guardian, FoxSoccer, and Sports Illustrated, and is a columnist for World Soccer. He was voted Football Writer of the Year by the Football Supporters Federation in 2012.


How Tiny Hungary Made Soccer Into the Game We Know and Love

Jonathan Wilson on the Transformative Play of a Handful of Stars
September 27, 2019  By Jonathan Wilson
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