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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montague, James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Subjects:
World Cup (Soccer) > (2014 : > Brazil)
Soccer matches > Developing countries.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Palestine, Afghanistan
  • Haiti, US Virgin Islands, Curaçao
  • Rwanda, Eritrea
  • American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga
  • Lebanon, United Arab Emirates
  • Egypt, Mozambique
  • Antigua and Barbuda, United States
  • Switzerland, Albania, Kosovo
  • Croatia, Serbia
  • Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda and Eritrea reprised
  • Brazil, Nigeria, Spain, Tahiti
  • Romania, Hungary
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia
  • Iceland, Norway
  • Jordan, Uruguay
  • The last thirty-two
  • Postscript.