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Thirty-One Nil - On the Road With Football's Outsiders (Paperback)
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Thirty-One Nil - On the Road With Football's Outsiders (Paperback)
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Winner of the Football Book of the Year Award, Cross British Sports
Book Awards 2015 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 with thousands of other footballers backed by millions of
supporters, they all dream of snatching one of the precious 32
places at the finals; and so begins a three-year epic struggle -
long before the usual suspects start their higher-profile
qualifying campaigns under the spotlight. Named after the greatest
victory (and defeat) that the World Cup qualifiers have ever seen
(Australia's 31-0 victory over American Samoa), Thirty-One Nil is
the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin
their journey chasing a place at the World Cup Finals. It
celebrates the part-time priests, princes and hopeless chancers who
dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds
stacked against them. It tells the story of teams who have
struggled for their very existence through political and social
turmoil, from which they will very occasionally emerge into
international stardom. From the endlessly humiliated San Marino to
lowly Haiti; from war-torn Lebanon to the oppressed and
fleet-footed players of Eritrea, in Thirty-One Nil James Montague
gets intimately and often dangerously close to some of the world's
most extraordinary teams, and tells their exceptional stories.
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