More Than Just a Game: Football V Apartheid. Chuck Korr and Marvin Close Tapa dura - 2008

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Collins, 10/06/2008. Hardcover. Used; Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

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London England: Collins. Hardback. 'This story adds a compelling dimension to our understanding of the struggle against apartheid' (Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus). 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 20 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 ceseless 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… Leer más

London England: Collins. Hardback. More Than Just a Game. 'This story adds a compelling dimension to our understanding of the struggle against apartheid' (Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus). 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 20 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 ceseless 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… Leer más

Collins. Very Good. Paperback. 2008. 317 pages. <br>This is the astonishing story of how a unique grou p of political prisoners and freedom fighters found a sense of di gnity in one of the ugliest hellholes on Earth: Robben Island. Th ese extraordinary men turned soccer into an active force in the s truggle for freedom. .

Harper Collins Publishers , pp. 336 . Hardback. New.

Collins, 2008. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 9.29x6.14x1.34 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.