Recently I read a Non Fiction book called SoccerNomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, it teaches a lot of helpful tools but also teaches you a valuable lesson to keep your calm when your in a important situation. In this book it was about keeping cool in a soccer match but I think this revolves around a issue besides sports. I think that anyone can read this book whether a soccer player or not. Because every one can a valuable lesson on how to keep your cool. I think Simon and Stefan did a great job making this interesting for soccer but also for people who may not be involved in soccer but want to learn a lesson.

     One part in the book teaches you how to keep cool in a penalty shootout, this really made me think about the incident that you are in when you are actually taking the penalty because your in such a large environment that just the sounds could eat you up and make you choke. In the book it gives an example of a very famous soccer player John Terry slipping under pressure, literally slipping. When he walked up to the penalty spot he was under so much pressure that when he went for the shot he slipped and fell which caused his team to loose.

     This lesson actually relates to my picture book. In my book Welly is being picked on by some bully's and he is screaming for his best friend Gus to help him. But Gus just froze under pressure, this happens a lot in different situations and this book really shows you the situations that it can happen to you in. This book has helped me become more strategic because now I know how to keep me cool in a penalty shootout which could also connect to life situations.

     Overall this was a really intriguing book and anyone who wants to learn about keeping cool should not be intimidated be the title because even though there is a lot of soccer facts in this book it could be helpful to anyone of any age.