Thirty-one nil : on the road with football's outsiders : a World Cup odyssey /
Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their pursuit of World Cup qualification. It celebrates the part-time laborers, fisherman, princes and hopeless chancers who dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds stacked against them. But a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury,
2014.
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| Summary: | Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their pursuit of World Cup qualification. It celebrates the part-time laborers, fisherman, princes and hopeless chancers who dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds stacked against them. But as brutal as it is meritocratic, upsets do still take place, and for every double-figures defeat there are also rare moments of victory. And so the underdogs and outsiders continue to help that, this time, they will be the ones that make it. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781408158845 (pbk.) 1408158841 (pbk.) |