Simon Kuper

About The Author

Simon Kuper is the author of The New York Times bestseller Soccernomics. He was born in Uganda to South African parents and moved to the Netherlands as a child. He studied history and German at Oxford University and attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar. He is a journalist for the Financial Times and has written for The Observer, The Times (London), and The Guardian, and he also writes regularly for Dutch newspapers. Simon lives in Paris with his family.

Books by Simon Kuper

World Cup Fever

A Soccer Journey in Nine Tournaments

By Simon Kuper
A New Yorker Best Book of 2026

An Amazon Best Book of 2026 (So Far)

"Highly engaging. Kuper is one of the best sportswriters in the English language today."—The New Yorker

"Intimate, personal, and insightful about the ways the sport has...
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