Description
Joe McGinniss embeds himself in the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro to follow its improbable soccer team after a stunning rise into the nation’s second-highest professional league. As the season unfolds across mountain towns, gritty cities, and storied football grounds, the team’s determined players, uncompromising coach, colorful owner, and fiercely loyal community reveal a world far removed from Italy’s familiar tourist image. Blending sports reportage, travel writing, and vivid character portraiture, the book explores ambition, loyalty, identity, and the fragile bonds that unite a village behind its unlikely heroes.
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paperback
Broadway
Published Jun 6, 2000
416 pages
ISBN: 9780767905992
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First Published
2000
Language
eng
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