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Billy Slater - From far north to the top (Paperback)
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Billy Slater - From far north to the top (Paperback)
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Hailing from Innesfail in rugged far north Queensland, Billy
Slater's rugby league days began in the tough local Foley Shield
competition, where his father and uncles had played before him. The
struggle Billy endured to pursue the game, from his modest roots
and remote locale, is symptomatic of the strength of character and
physicality that saw him go on to play for the Melbourne Storm and
eventually be voted the best footballer in the world. Now John
Ellicott presents a finely crafted portrait of the star fullback:
from his Spanish background and his family's beginnings up north,
to the great rivalries of the Queensland towns who battled it out
for the Foley Shield, through the eyes of former coaches and
players who knew him. He has had a successful career: at Melbourne
he set the club record for most ever tries and NRL record for most
ever tries by a fullback. Slater also won three grand finals, the
Clive Churchill Medal and the Dally M Medal with the Storm. With
the Kangaroos he was the 2008 World Cup's top try-scorer and player
of the tournament and won the 2008 Golden Boot Award as the World
player of the year. Slater was also the winner of the television
game show Australia's Greatest Athlete in 2009 and 2010. In 2012 he
was the highest scoring fullback try scorer in the NRL. He scored
the first try in Melbourne's 2013 World Club Challenge win over
Leeds, he played at fullback for Australia in the 2013 ANZAC Test
victory against New Zealand. He scored a hat-trick (3 Tries)
against the Brisbane Broncos. Slater played all three games of the
2013 State of Origin series in which Queensland extended their
record for consecutive series victories to eight. During 2013
Slater also became the 8th player in history of the League to score
150 tries. He was selected in Australia's 24-man squad for the 2013
Rugby League World Cup, which Australia won. The trials and
tribulations, blood, sweat and tears that went into what became a
victorious lifetime in Rugby League, are revealed and celebrated in
this riveting biography.
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