Pirlo autobiography releases

The lives of football players and managers are very often stranger than fiction.

Throughout their high-profile careers and celebrity lives there are dizzying highs, soul-destroying lows and an array of intriguing and bizarre characters.

It makes for a rather splendid read for us mere mortals.

Fortunately for those footballers looking to cash in on their anecdotes, there are ghost writers on hand to help them shape their stories before they're sent out for public consumption.

Pirlo autobiography releases

When the final product hits the shelves, it can read like an action-thriller.

I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Let's start with a stormer. If there is one man's autobiography that promises to get readers on the edge of their seats then it's Zlatan's.

The maverick Sweden international details his journey as an immigrant from poverty to one of the world's most successful and controversial footballers. Having been initially released in 2011 - and in English in 2013 - the later chapters of Ib