Buy this book on-line KORR, CHUCK & CLOSE, MARVIN: : MORE THAN JUST A GAME: FOOTBALL V APARTHEID - The most important football story ever toldLONDON.COLLINS,2008. ISBN 9780007278794.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Clean, unblemished,publisher's
original plain green cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xiiipp+1-317pp [paginated] includes preface by Sepp Blatter,an introduction,11 chapters+epilogue,a chapter on the story behind the title/book,12pp b/w+colour photographs+illus between pp146/7,an index and acknowledgements.
This is the true story of how the political prisoners of South Africa's infamous Robben Island turned football into an active force in their struggle for freedom.Despite torture, regular beatings and backbreaking labour,these extraordinary men defied all odds and played organized league football in one of the ugliest and most brutal hellholes on earth.Even more astonishingly,they played the game for nearly twenty years with strict adherence to FIFA rules.
Told through the eyes of former prisoners,this factual account chronicles their arrival on the island,their years of ceaseless campaigning to be allowed to play on an abandoned patch of land,the creation and success of the Makana Football Association and their triumph over the prison authorities every time their right to play the beautiful game was threatened.But as the football league grew in popularity,so did the challenges,forcing the prisoners to not only wrestle with the apartheid establishment,but also to manage themselves.
This incredible story celebrates bravery and heroism and shows how sport has the power to unite and overcome adversity.
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