Football Dreams

Author : David Guy
Publisher : Signet
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451166795

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Football Dreams by David Guy Pdf

Author : Sebastian Abbot
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393292213

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The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstars by Sebastian Abbot Pdf

“An exhilarating, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately unforgettable journey that lays bare the true human stakes of the world’s most popular game.”—Warren St. John, best-selling author of Outcasts United Searching for soccer’s next superstars, an audacious program called Football Dreams held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa. In The Away Game, Sebastian Abbot follows several of the boys as they chase their dreams in a dizzying world of rich Arab sheikhs, money-hungry agents, and soccer-mad European fans.

Author : PJ Roberts,Marc Roberts
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789814358880

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Mister Lee's Fantastic Football Dream by PJ Roberts,Marc Roberts Pdf

Singaporean teenager Lee Jun Yong dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Growing up in a family of humble means, in the shadow of Bedok Stadium, the sixteen-year-old is unsure what the future has in store for him. Then one day a chance encounter and some fancy footwork lead to a trial with local professional soccer team Geylang United and suddenly it seems as if Jun Yong’s dream is about to come true. Armed with his grandfather’s Tiger Balm and qi gong training, can Jun Yong make the under-18 national squad and represent his country against Australia? Teenage soccer fans worldwide will delight in Jun Yong’s football skills, despair at his dating skills, and empathise with his struggle to over come hardships and make his fantastic football dream become reality.

Author : Andrew M. Guest
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781978817333

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Soccer in Mind by Andrew M. Guest Pdf

From the FIFA World Cup to pick-up games at your local park, soccer is the closest thing in our world to a universal entertainment. Many writers use this global popularity to describe the game’s winners and losers, but what happens when we use social science to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self? This book provides a thinking fan’s guide to the world’s most popular game, proposing a way of engaging soccer that sparks intellectual curiosity and employs critical consciousness. Using stories and data, along with ideas from sociology, psychology, and across the social sciences, it provides readers with new ways of understanding fanaticism, peak performance, talent development, and more. Drawing on concepts ranging from cognitive bias to globalization, it illuminates meanings of the game for players and fans while investigating impacts on our lives and communities. While it considers soccer cultures across the globe, the book also analyzes what makes U.S. soccer culture special, including its embrace of the women’s game. As a scholar, former minor league player and coach, and fan, Andrew Guest offers a distinctive perspective on soccer in society. Whatever name you call it, and whatever your interest in it, Soccer in Mind will enrich your own view of the one truly global game.

Author : Pat Williams
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780446550772

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Extreme Dreams Depend on Teams by Pat Williams Pdf

Pat says though the vision of one person can change the world, no one can carry out a vision alone. Extreme dreams depend on teams, and lack of teamwork is often how big dreams go unrealized. Using examples and anecdotes from history and contemporary life, Pat shows how the greatest world-changing events came to be as the result of the passion of single individuals. In each case, a team was assembled with people equipped in the various areas needed to bring the vision to pass. Pat addresses team assembly, dynamics, and pitfalls to give readers guidance they can immediately apply to their own circumstances. Everyone is looking for ways to be more successful in life. Pat Williams serves up a book packed with practical help to get readers where they want to be.

Author : Eugene Napoleon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595404063

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Dream Real by Eugene Napoleon Pdf

"Dream Real offers critical, insider knowledge for teens serious about making it to the professional sports level. The book also explores Napoleon's personal trials and tribulations as an African-American youngster from a single-parent home in one of the country's toughest projects. Determined not to become another statistic, Napoleon went on to play professional football, won Teacher of the Year honors, and is now one of the country's top sports agents."--Page 4 of cover

Author : Cem Tinaz,Brendon Knott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000374315

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Sport and Development in Emerging Nations by Cem Tinaz,Brendon Knott Pdf

For the first time, this book examines the strategies of leaders of emerging nations to use sport as a tool for reaching social, economic, cultural, political, technological or environmental goals and gaining international prestige. It assesses whether sport can really be an effective tool in international development. The book explores the unique challenges, issues and opportunities offered by sport for development in emerging nations. Bringing together case studies of sport and development in countries including Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey, the book looks at policies designed to achieve development through, by and for sport, and whether they have achieved their socio-economic objectives. It considers the way that emerging nations have used major international sports events as political and developmental projects, as well as the importance of sporting infrastructure, professional leagues, participation programmes and the influence of nationalism and ideology. With a truly global perspective, this book is important reading for any student, researcher or policy-maker with interest in sport management, sport development, development studies, international economics, globalisation or political science.

Author : David Guy
Publisher : Signet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451146824

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Football Dreams by David Guy Pdf

Author : Tom Bower
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781471163821

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Broken Dreams by Tom Bower Pdf

Greedy, vain and ambitious personalities dominate English football. From the author of devastating exposes of Mohamed Fayed, Richard Branson and, most recently, Geoffrey Robinson, BROKEN DREAMS is a superbly incisive account of how self-interested individuals, adopting questionable and predatory business methods, are exploiting the sport of football to earn billions of pounds and huge glory. Focusing on key figures including Terry Venables, Ken Bates, David Dein, Harry Redknapp, Rio Ferdinand and other famous agents, chairmen and managers, Tom Bower exposes the money, the politics, and the vicious battles behind the beautiful game. For the first time a non-sports writer reveals the vanity and greed which endanger the national sport.

Author : Gainesville Sun
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 157167196X

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The Greatest Moments of Florida Gators Football by Gainesville Sun Pdf

From the school's inaugural season in 1906 through its national championship campaign of 1996, all of the most exciting stories are captured for the very first time in a single book. Included are tales about such great players as 1966 Heisman Trophy winner and current head coach Steve Spurrier and 1996 Heisman quarterback Danny Wuerffel. Fans can read about Florida's early successes in the 1920s, its first bowl team in 1952, the teams of Doug Dickey in the '70s and Galen Hall in the '80s, and, of course, Spurrier's amazing teams of the '90s, including the '96 national champs.

Author : Matt Oldfield
Publisher : Dino Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781789463767

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Ultimate Football Heroes Collection: Barcelona by Matt Oldfield Pdf

Follow the stories of Griezmann, Messi and Suarez, three Barcelona legends, in this exciting collection of stories written by Matt and Tom Oldfield. Ultimate Football Heroes is a series of fictional biographies about the biggest and best footballers in the world and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to superstar professional player. Written in a fast-paced, action-packed style, these books are perfect for all the family to collect and enjoy.

Author : Matt & Tom Oldfield
Publisher : Dino Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789461220

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Griezmann / Mbappe (Ultimate Football Heroes) by Matt & Tom Oldfield Pdf

Meet Antoine Griezmann - Ultimate Football Hero Leading the attack for France's golden generation is Antoine Griezmann - the golden boy. Antoine grew up in the heart of France, before his talent was quickly spotted by scouts who brought him to play in Spain. Ever since then, he has blazed a trail through the Spanish top division, La Liga, for Real Sociedad and then Atlético Madrid. This is the story of a speedy striker who chased his dream to the very top, when he fired France to World Cup glory in 2018. Ultimate Football Heroes is a series of biographies telling the life-stories of the biggest and best footballers in the world and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to super-star professional player. Written in fast-paced, action-packed style these books are perfect for all the family to collect and share.

Author : John McManus
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785788222

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Inside Qatar by John McManus Pdf

'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book ... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER, author of SOCCERNOMICS 'This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation' BEN JUDAH, author of THIS IS LONDON 'John McManus is a remarkable, compelling writer' RORY STEWART, author of THE PLACES IN BETWEEN 'Wise, well informed, fair-minded and honest' PETER OBORNE, author of THE ASSAULT ON TRUTH AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF LIFE IN ONE OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST NATIONS AHEAD OF THE FIFA 2022 WORLD CUP Just 75 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts. Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity. Ahead of Qatar's time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, anthropologist John McManus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded elite, its spin doctors and thrill seekers, its manual labourers and domestic workers. The sum of their tales is not some exotic cabinet of curiosities. Instead, Inside Qatar opens a window onto the global problems - of unfettered capitalism, growing inequality and climate change - that concern us all.

Author : Ed Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472914958

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The Lost Boys by Ed Hawkins Pdf

A shocking exposé of football's human-trafficking scandal. From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football's slave trade – the beautiful game turned ugly. Talent-spotted by scouts, these kids are told they could be 'the next big thing'. But the reality is very different. Having spent their family's life savings to join a much-hyped academy, they soon discover the academies barely exist and that they have been exploited. Only a tiny percentage of the hopefuls are chosen just to be coached for the slim chance of a professional contract; the rest are abandoned. With no money to go home – let alone the confidence to face their heartbroken families – the Lost Boys find themselves stuck in the country they have been trafficked to, with crime often their only means of survival. From the author of Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy (shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 2013's book of the year), The Lost Boys exposes for the first time the anatomy of football's human-trafficking scandal, the extent of the abuse, and how it ruins lives and threatens the credibility of the sport. With unique access to a charity trying to rescue and repatriate the children and a special investigative unit set up to stem the problem, Ed Hawkins gets under the fingernails of one of the most serious and heart-rending issues in sport today. Lost Boys is investigative journalism at its best: shocking, moving, and hoping to make a real difference.

Author : Emory Hunt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780990551225

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Football: A Love Story by Emory Hunt Pdf

Over 100 interviews from current/former coaches, players, personnel execs, analyst and entertainers on their love for the game of football