Themes - SOCCER AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Most people associate soccer and World War I to Christmas Day 1914, when the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding faded in a number of places along the Western Front in favor of holiday celebrations in the trenches and gestures of goodwill between enemies, including playing a good-natured game of soccer. But behind the frontlines soccer games were still played for some time and later on it became the favorite passtime of many soldiers taking a break from frontline duty. And there are of course also the many well-known and lesser know soccer players who never returned home to play a game of soccer. Next you can see a small collection of world War I soccer publications.

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14-18, LE SPORT SORT DES TRANCHÉES : UN HÉRITAGE INATTENDU DE LA GRANDE GUERRE

BELGISCHE SPORTMANNEN IN DE GROOTE OORLOG. VAN HET SPORTVELD NAAR HET SLAGVELD (Top Book !) (Belgian Sports and Sportsmen in World War I)

THE MUNITIONETTES: A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S FOOTBALL IN NORTH EAST ENGLAND DURING THE GREAT WAR

UN CALCIO ALLA GUERRA (Top Book Football in WW I and WWII in Italy & Europe)

DE REGELS VAN HET VOETBALSPEL SEIZOEN 1915-1916 (Belgium Football WW I)

ARMAND. HET STRAFSTE BELGISCHE SPORTVERHAAL OOIT !

THE STORY OF WALTER TULL

LILY AND THE ROCKETS (Novel WW I Women Soccer)

LE GARDIEN DE BUT. FOOTBALL and Sports In World War I (La Vie Au Grand Air)(1916)

FOOTBALL IN TIMBERTOWN 1914-1918 (The English Camp in Groningen / Netherlands)

LOST FOOTBALL HEROES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (Complete Record United Kingdom)

SET 2 x INHULDIGING VAN HET GEDENKMAAL DER GESNEUVELDE VOETBALLERS 1926

KAMPIOENEN "14-'18. VOETBAL IN NEUTRAAL NEDERLAND (Soccer in Holland during WW I)

LE SPORT ET LA GRANDE GUERRE

YOU NOT SHOOT, WE NOT SHOOT. THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE THE MATCH OF THE TRENCHES) (English, Français, Nederlands, Deutsch)

EN HOMENAJE DE LOS CLUBS STRONGEST y BOLIVAR. AL MALOGRADO AVIADOR CAP. FAUSTINO RICO TORO

THE GREATER GAME. A HISTORY OF FOOTBALL IN WORLD WAR I

THE FINAL SEASON: THE FOOTBALLERS WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN THE GREAT WAR

THE CHRISTMAS MATCH. FOOTBALL IN NO MAN'S LAND 1914

BRUSSELS FEMINA CLUB - FIRST EVER BELGIAN WOMEN'S SOCCER AND ATHLETIC SPORTS CLUB

MORTS AU CHAMP D'HONNEUR (1914-1918)

HARD AS NAILS : THE SPORTSMAN'S BATTALION OF WORLD WAR ONE

INHULDIGING VAN HET GEDENKMAAL DER GESNEUVELDE VOETBALLERS

THE DICK KERR'S LADIES

THE FOOTBALLER OF LOOS

Fighting for Football: From Woolwich Arsenal to the Western Front - The Story of Football's First Rebel

SOCCER ANZACS

CHILEAN FOOTBALLERS AT THE ISONZO FRONT

ALEX CARO - 50 ANS DE SPORT D'UN PIONNIER WALLON

ZUR ERINNERUNG AN CLUB FRANCAIS v TENNIS BORUSSIA BERLIN IM HERBST 1924

NOT JUST ON CHRISTMAS DAY

WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS

ONZE GROOTE OORLOGS-INTERNATIONALEN

YEDI KANDILLI AVIZE

UN LEON EN LA TRINCHERA

CANADIAN CORPS FALL CHAMPIONSHIP ATHLETIC MEET

THE MUNITIONETTES

28.11.1917 BELGIUM v CANADA

SASKATCHEWAN SOCCER - A HISTORY

IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

SOCCER AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR