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Thirty-one nil : on the road with football's outsiders : a World Cup odyssey /
- Title
- Thirty-one nil : on the road with football's outsiders : a World Cup odyssey / James Montague.
- Author
- Montague, James,
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury Sport, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GV943.5 2014 .M66 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their pursuit of World Cup qualification. It celebrates the part-time labourers, fisherman, princes and hopeless chancers who dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds stacked against them. But as brutal as it is meritocratic, upsets do still take place, and for every double-figures defeat there are also rare moments of victory. And so the underdogs and outsiders continue to help that, this time, they will be the ones that make it"--
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Palestine, Afghanistan -- Haiti, US Virgin Islands, Curaçao -- Rwanda, Eritrea -- American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga -- Lebanon, United Arab Emirates -- Egypt, Mozambique -- Antigua and Barbuda, United States -- Switzerland, Albania, Kosovo -- Croatia, Serbia -- Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda and Eritrea reprised -- Brazil, Nigeria, Spain, Tahiti -- Romania, Hungary -- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia -- Iceland, Norway -- Jordan, Uruguay -- The last thirty-two -- Postscript.
- ISBN
- 9781408158845
- 1408158841
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library