Football books for 8–12 year olds who love the game:

Meet Tyko Brayne.
He’s the biggest football fan on planet Earth. Only problem is, he’s stuck on Uranus. The planet, that is.

Tyko’s chances of playing for Earth FC in the GLOOFF* Cup are about one in a gazillion. But a cosmic catastrophe results in planet Earth vanishing, someone needs to step up and take Earth’s FC’s place. Where in the universe is there a team to represent humankind? URANUS.

Do the players of Uranus FC have the skills to take on the galaxy’s most vicious football-playing species? NO.

Does the team have the courage to take the field? YES.

Is there a plan? KIND OF.

Will they survive? PROBABLY NOT . . .

*The Galactic League of Orbiting Football Federations