Conifa: Football for the Forgotten (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780244173630)

This is not a book about football. Well, it is, in a sense, but it's also a book about overcoming the odds. About being rejected from the sporting mainstream, but fighting back. About training for an international tournament with only a single ball. It's about representing one country, but being forced to live your life in another. About finding sporting representation as a rank outsider; overcoming political superpowers to find a place. It's about scrambling a team together in a few weeks to represent millions of people, or fronting a multi-continental organization on a near-bankrupt shoestring because it's that important to your indigenous reindeer-herding Scandinavian ethnic minority that they have their own global, international outlet. Those last two paragraphs probably sound like hyperbole. I couldn't quite believe it either, but every word of them is real. Follow me on a journey down a footballing rabbit hole, where sport and politics mingle in glorious, positive harmony. This is CONIFA

Author: James Hendicott
ISBN-10: 024417363X
ISBN-13: 9780244173630
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.47d