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Be inspired by Football Legend, Kylian Mbappé!Discover more about this incredible player’sjourney from his early career at AS Bondy, coachedby his father, to his success at Paris Saint-Germain FC and fulfillinghis dream of playing for France.Football Legends: Young readers will love findingout all about the lives of their favourite players in this incrediblebiography series. Packed with footie facts and match statsplus Mbappé's career highlightsAlso in the series: Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling, TammyAbraham, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and LionelMessi.Amazing cover artwork illustrated by StanleyChow, whose iconic work has found worldwideacclaim
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Be inspired by Football Legend, Gareth Southgate!Discover more about this incredible player's journeyfrom his early career at Southampton F.C. to his role asmanager of England's national football team and his triumphantleadership that got England to the finals at UEFAEuro 2020.Football Legends: Young readers will love findingout all about the lives of their favourite players in this incrediblebiography series. Packed with footie facts and match stats plusSouthgate's career highlights.Also in the series: Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling, TammyAbraham, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lionel Messi and KylianMbappé.Amazing cover artwork illustrated by StanleyChow, whose iconic work has found worldwideacclaim.
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______________THE WISDEN CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012‘Hawkins knows both cricket and gambling, but his greatest asset in this penetrative investigation is nerve’ - Sports Books of the Year, Sunday Times‘Brilliantly and vividly told … The cricket world … should know more about how the gambling end of the fixing saga actually works. And they should start with this book’ – The Cricketer'The most explosive book yet about corruption in cricket' - Lawrence Booth, editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack______________A startling and powerful journey to the very core of India's illegal bookmaking industry that exposes the scale of corruption and the match-fixing that now runs rife throughout world cricket.For several years Ed Hawkins made friends with India's illegal bookmakers - men who boast turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars per cricket match - as well as the corruption officers of the International Cricket Council who are trying to shut them down. It's a shady world and rumours abound. But then Hawkins receives a message that changes everything and he decides it is time to expose the truth behind match-fixing.Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy is a story featuring politicians, governing bodies, illegal bookmakers and powerless players - as well as corruption, intimidation and even suicide. It is a story that touches all cricket-playing nations around the world. It is a story that every cricket fan must read. You might never again watch a cricket match without suspicion...
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A shocking exposé of football's human-trafficking scandal.From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football’s slave trade – the beautiful game turned ugly.Talent-spotted by scouts, these kids are told they could be ‘the next big thing’. But the reality is very different. Having spent their family's life savings to join a much-hyped academy, they soon discover the academies barely exist and that they have been exploited.Only a tiny percentage of the hopefuls are chosen just to be coached for the slim chance of a professional contract; the rest are abandoned. With no money to go home – let alone the confidence to face their heartbroken families – the Lost Boys find themselves stuck in the country they have been trafficked to, with crime often their only means of survival.From the author of Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy (shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 2013's book of the year), The Lost Boys exposes for the first time the anatomy of football’s human-trafficking scandal, the extent of the abuse, and how it ruins lives and threatens the credibility of the sport.With unique access to a charity trying to rescue and repatriate the children and a special investigative unit set up to stem the problem, Ed Hawkins gets under the fingernails of one of the most serious and heart-rending issues in sport today. Lost Boys is investigative journalism at its best: shocking, moving, and hoping to make a real difference.