The Away Game

The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstars

Recommended by Grant Wahl, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #87 in Soccer

Over the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of 13-year-old boys across Africa looking for soccer’s next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi’s career at Barcelona and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the program has chosen a handful of boys each year to train to become professionals—a process over a thousand times more selective than getting into Harvard.


In The Away Game, reporter Sebastian Abbot follows a small group of the boys as they are discovered on dirt fields across...
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Grant Wahl I’ll be there. This is a fantastic book. https://t.co/cmH10e6q9B (Source)


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