Frasi di Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper
Data di nascita: 15. Ottobre 1969
Simon Kuper è uno scrittore ugandese naturalizzato britannico specializzato in sport.
Kuper è nato in Uganda da genitori sudafricani nel 1969, trasferendosi a Leida durante la sua infanzia. Ha studiato Storia e lingua tedesca all'Università di Oxford e ha frequentato l'Università di Harvard tramite la Kennedy Scholarship. Attualmente risiede in Parigi con la sua famiglia.
Vincitore del William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award nel 1994 con la sua opera prima Football Against The Enemy , ha scritto diversi articoli d'opinione per giornali britannici quali The Observer e The Guardian. Noto per i suoi scritti "da una perspettiva antropologica", dal 2002 lavora come collonista sportivo per il quotidiano economico inglese Financial Times.
Frasi Simon Kuper
„the Finnish financial analyst Matias Möttölä calculates that in terms of revenue, Real Madrid would still only be the 120th largest company in Finland (a country with a population of just 5.4 million people, or about the same as Minnesota).“
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
„People are always complaining that American culture has conquered the world. In fact, British culture probably remains more dominant. This fading midsize island has kept a bizarre grip on the global imagination. It’s not only their sports that the Brits have exported. The world’s six best-selling novels of the past hundred years are all British: four Harry Potters, one Agatha Christie, and one J. R. R. Tolkien. The world’s best-selling band ever is the Beatles. And the sports league with the biggest global impact is surely the Premier League.“
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
„The theory of the “wisdom of crowds” says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much more likely to arrive at the best opinion than if you just listen to one specialist.“
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
„The wisdom of crowds fails when the components of the crowd are not diverse enough.“
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia—and Even Iraq—Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
