The Dynamo Football Book Club is the podcast for football fans who love a good read.
Each week, we dive into books by and about footballers — from autobiographies and biographies to ghostwritten epics and hidden gems. If Vardy’s vodka, Maradona mayhem, or the Cruyff kidnapping are your thing,, we’ve got you covered. We read em, so you don’t have to (although some of em you really ought to).
The episodes are not tied to the match day cycle and can be listened to any time and in any order. Expect a lively chat, deep dives and a good old larf, har har.
🎙️ New episodes every week.
⚽️ Great for fans of football history, sportswriting, player memoirs, and podcast book clubs.
♬ Music by the wonderful Darragh Fenlon.
*formerly the Ademola Bookmen Podcast.
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The Dynamo Football Book Club is the podcast for football fans who love a good read.
Each week, we dive into books by and about footballers — from autobiographies and biographies to ghostwritten epics and hidden gems. If Vardy’s vodka, Maradona mayhem, or the Cruyff kidnapping are your thing,, we’ve got you covered. We read em, so you don’t have to (although some of em you really ought to).
The episodes are not tied to the match day cycle and can be listened to any time and in any order. Expect a lively chat, deep dives and a good old larf, har har.
🎙️ New episodes every week.
⚽️ Great for fans of football history, sportswriting, player memoirs, and podcast book clubs.
♬ Music by the wonderful Darragh Fenlon.
*formerly the Ademola Bookmen Podcast.
Episode 29: Messi - The Definitive Biography by Guillem Balague
The Dynamo Football Bookclub
58 minutes 46 seconds
3 months ago
Episode 29: Messi - The Definitive Biography by Guillem Balague
How do you follow a 5-time Ballon D’or winner? Well, with an 8-time Ballon D’or Winner of course. That’s right, its Part II of the Guillem Balague GOAT saga and our review of his biography of one Lionel Messi.
Originally published in 2013 but updated for the Argentina World Cup win in 2022, the book is a long one, covering the descent from heaven of the baby Messi to the unassuming city of Rosario, tucked away on the Rio Paraná, a few hundred miles inland from Buenos Aires.
With interviews from various people who touched the hem of his garment along the way, the book very extensively covers how Messi touched the lives of the earthlings who had the privilege of sharing the planet with him. The book also includes references to El Diablo, Cristiano Ronaldo, with a sterling supporting role from arch bean-counter, Jorge Messi. And of course, Messi’s grandmother.
As of some day last week, we were just two spots below Balague in the football podcast charts so please do have a listen and give us the chance of leapfrogging the Messi hagiographer. And if you like it, well please do like it…
The Dynamo Football Bookclub
The Dynamo Football Book Club is the podcast for football fans who love a good read.
Each week, we dive into books by and about footballers — from autobiographies and biographies to ghostwritten epics and hidden gems. If Vardy’s vodka, Maradona mayhem, or the Cruyff kidnapping are your thing,, we’ve got you covered. We read em, so you don’t have to (although some of em you really ought to).
The episodes are not tied to the match day cycle and can be listened to any time and in any order. Expect a lively chat, deep dives and a good old larf, har har.
🎙️ New episodes every week.
⚽️ Great for fans of football history, sportswriting, player memoirs, and podcast book clubs.
♬ Music by the wonderful Darragh Fenlon.
*formerly the Ademola Bookmen Podcast.
