The world's number one football writer: Who is Simon Kuper?
Born in Uganda, Kuper lived in various cities in America and Europe. He attracted attention with the football books he wrote. The interviews and reviews he conducted with countless football players and coaches caused his books to be admired and attracted by the masses.
Kuper studied history at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and his main interest was football. Simon Kuper, who started writing at a very young age, worked on this subject in various countries around the world.
Details of life story
He was born on October 15, 1969 in Uganda. His father was an anthropology academic. They moved to the Netherlands when his father started working at Leiden University.
Kuper later lived in cities such as Stanford, California, Berlin, and London and played football as an amateur.
He studied "History" and "German" at Oxford University.
Simon Kuper is a British, and naturalized French, author and journalist, best known for his work at the Financial Times and as a football writer. After studies at Oxford, Harvard University and the Technische Universität Berlin, Kuper started his career in journalism at the FT in 1994, where he today writes about a wide range of topics, such as politics, society, culture, sports and urban planning.
While playing football in the countries he lived in, he wrote football-related articles for various magazines and newspapers. One day, he thought of writing a book about football and went on a nine-month-long trip for this purpose. He met with many coaches and football players from many countries. He turned his interviews into stories and published his book Football Against the Enemy in England in 1994. With this book, he won the best sports book of the year award in England.
Stating that he is an Ajax fan, Kuper published his book Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War in 2003.
In 2009, his book Soccernomics with Stefan Szymanski went on sale.
He currently lives in Paris with his family and writes articles about football, politics, and literature for the Financial Times.