e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Abbot, Sebastian.
Subjects
Aspire Football Dreams (Program)
Soccer players -- Training of -- Qatar.
Soccer players -- Recruiting -- Africa.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Abbot, Sebastian.
by title:
The away game : the ...
by call number:
796.334 A129a
Search the Web
Abbot, Sebastian.
Aspire Football Dreams (Program)
Soccer players -- Training of -- Qatar.
Soccer players -- Recruiting -- Africa.
MARC Display
The away game : the epic search for soccer's next superstars /
Sebastian
Abbot
by
Abbot
,
Sebastian
.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Call #:
796.334 A129a
Subjects
Aspire Football Dreams (Program)
Soccer players -- Training of -- Qatar.
Soccer players -- Recruiting -- Africa.
ISBN:
9780393292206 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition
Description:
xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Boys -- The tornado -- The skipper -- The target -- Trainees -- The academy -- Final tryout -- Sent off -- Brothers -- Glory and shame -- The milk cup -- Pros -- Battle of Belgium -- Miracle land -- Only the beginning
Summary:
"Over the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for soccer'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 program 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. 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
weaves together the story of the boys' journey with an exploration of the art and science of trying to spot talent at such a young age. As in so many other sports, data analytics in soccer have expanded, with scouts employing sophisticated metrics and tracking data to judge players. But, soccer genius depends more on intangible qualities like "game intelligence" than on easily quantifiable ones. 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. The story of the joy and pain these talented African boys experience as they chase their dreams in a dizzying world of rich Arab sheikhs, money-hungry agents, and soccer-mad European fans.
Sebastian
Abbot
worked for the Associated Press in Cairo and Islamabad"--Provided by publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.334 A129a
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.334 A129a
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.334 A129a
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.