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The Away Game - The Epic Search for Football's Next Superstars (Paperback)
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The Away Game - The Epic Search for Football's Next Superstars (Paperback)
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Over the past decade, an audacious programme called Football Dreams
has held trials for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa
looking for football's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout
who helped launch Lionel Messi's career at Barcelona and funded by
the desert kingdom of Qatar, the programme has chosen a handful of
boys each year to train to become professionals - a process over a
thousand times more selective than getting into Harvard. In The
Away Game, reporter Sebastian Abbot follows a small group of the
boys as they are discovered on dirt fields across Africa, join the
glittering academy in Doha where they train, and compete for the
chance to gain fame and fortune at Europe's top clubs. Abbot
masterfully weaves together the dramatic story of the boys' journey
with an exploration of the art and science of trying to spot talent
at such a young age. Richly reported and deeply moving, The Away
Game is set against the geopolitical backdrop of Qatar's rise from
an impoverished patch of desert to an immensely rich nation
determined to buy a place on the international stage. It is an
unforgettable story of the joy and pain these talented African boys
experience as they chase their dreams in a dizzying world of rich
Arab sheikhs, moneyhungry agents, and football-mad European fans.
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