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Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football´s Outsiders
James Montague
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Description for Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football´s Outsiders
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: WSB; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS The story of the immense struggle to qualify for the World Cup, Thirty-One Nil roams from American Samoa to Zambia in a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football. In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war zone, Afghanistan take on Palestine in the first Asian qualifier for the World Cup. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: their careers, their families, even their lives. Yet, along ... Read more
WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS The story of the immense struggle to qualify for the World Cup, Thirty-One Nil roams from American Samoa to Zambia in a remarkable and insightful journey that gets under the skin of world football. In a tiny, decaying aluminium smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war zone, Afghanistan take on Palestine in the first Asian qualifier for the World Cup. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: their careers, their families, even their lives. Yet, along ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408851630
SKU
V9781408851630
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About James Montague
James Montague is an award-winning author and journalist who writes for The Athletic and Tifo and who reports about football, politics and society for The New York Times, CNN and BBC World Service. He is the author of four books and is a two-time winner of the Football Book of the Year at the British Sports Book of the Year ... Read more
Reviews for Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football´s Outsiders
[Montague] captures a dazzling amount of detail...Thirty-One Nil is well worthy of entry to the canon of great football reportage.
Independent
The Indiana Jones of soccer journalism
Sports Illustrated
as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking
FourFourTwo
vibrant and colourful...Thirty-One Nil is a a brilliant read
Back page Football
a gripping tale...Montague's book ... Read more
Independent
The Indiana Jones of soccer journalism
Sports Illustrated
as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking
FourFourTwo
vibrant and colourful...Thirty-One Nil is a a brilliant read
Back page Football
a gripping tale...Montague's book ... Read more