Small Time: A Life in the Football Wilderness - Couverture souple

Bryant, Justin

 
9781909125315: Small Time: A Life in the Football Wilderness
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1909125318 ISBN 13 : 9781909125315
Editeur : Bennion Kearny, 2013

Synopsis

In 1988, 23-year-old American goalkeeper Justin Bryant thought a glorious career in professional football awaited him. He had just saved two penalties for his American club - the Orlando Lions - against Scotland's Dunfermline Athletic, to help claim the first piece of silverware in their history. He was young, strong, healthy, and confident.

But professional football, he found, is rarely easy.

Small Time is the story of a life spent mostly in the backwaters of the game. As Justin negotiated the Non-League pitches of the Vauxhall-Opel League, and the many failed professional leagues of the U.S. in the 1980s and 90s, he struggled not only with his game, but his physical and mental health.

Battling stress, social anxiety, a mysterious stomach ailment, and simple bad luck, he nonetheless experienced fleeting moments of triumph that no amount of money can buy. Football, he learned, is 95% blood, sweat, and tears; but if you love it enough, the other 5% makes up for it.

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Éditeur
Bennion Kearny
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1909125318
ISBN 13 
9781909125315
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
174
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
https://www.buchpark.de

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