Conifa: Football for the Forgotten

By James Hendicott

This is not a book about football. Well, it is, in a sense, but it's also a book about overcoming the odds. About being rejected from the sporting mainstream, but fighting back. About training for an international tournament with only a single ball. It's about representing one country, but being forced to live your life in another. About finding sporting representation as a rank outsider; overcoming political superpowers to find a place. It's about scrambling a team together in a few weeks to represent millions of people, or fronting a multi-continental organization on a near-bankrupt shoestring because it's that important to your indigenous reindeer-herding Scandinavian ethnic minority that they have their own global, international outlet. Those last two paragraphs probably sound like hyperbole. I couldn't quite believe it either, but every word of them is real. Follow me on a journey down a footballing rabbit hole, where sport and politics mingle in glorious, positive harmony. This is CONIFA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 024417363X
• ISBN13: 9780244173630
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"