Up Pohnpei: Leading the Ultimate Football Underdogs to Glory [Audiobook] download free by Paul Watson
- Listen audiobook: Up Pohnpei: Leading the Ultimate Football Underdogs to Glory
- Author: Paul Watson
- Release date: 2013/2/23
- Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781846685026
- Rating: 8.64 of 10
- Votes: 198
- Review by: Chance Weller
- Review rating: 8.68 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/16
- Duration: 3H27M32S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WavPack, WMA, FLAC, WAV, MP3, ATRAC, MPEG4 (compression ACE, 7Z, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M4S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: After one too many late night discussions, football journalist Paul Watson and his mate Matthew Conrad decide to find the world's worst national team, become naturalised citizens of that country and play for them - achieving their joint boyhood dream of playing international football and winning a 'cap'. They are thrilled when Wikipedia leads them to Pohnpei, a tiny, remote island in the Pacific whose long-defunct football team is described as 'the weakest in the world'. They contact Pohnpei's Football Association and discover what it needs most urgently is leadership. So Paul and Matt travel thousands of miles, leaving behind jobs, families and girlfriends to train a rag-tag bunch of novice footballers who barely understand the rules of the game.Up Pohnpei tells the story of their quest to coach the team and eventually, organise an international fixture - Pohnpei's first since a 16-1 defeat many years ago. With no funding, a population whose obesity rate is 90 percent and toad-infested facilities in one of the world's wettest climates, their journey is beset by obstacles from the outset. Part travelogue, part quest, Up Pohnpei shows how the passion and determination of two young men can change the face of football - and the lives of total strangers - on the other side of the world.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, American Football, Sports Books, Football (Soccer, Association Football)
- Download servers: Torrent Project, Dropbox, MEGA, Hotfile, Racaty, 4Shared, Filedropper, Microsoft OneDrive, FileServe. Compressed in ACE, 7Z, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.15 USD
- Dimensions: 130x200x18mm
- Weight: 220g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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