Duncan Mackay

Gebundenes Buch

They Came From a Land Down Under

The birth of the Socceroos and how they qualified for the 1974 FIFA World Cup finals

Beschreibung

The story of how a group of mainly immigrant part-timers represented Australia at the 1974 Word Cup in West Germany.

Autor

Duncan Mackay is an award-winning journalist based in the UK. He is the founding editor of insidethegames and insideworldfootball and worked for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, respectively, in London for 17 years. Mackay was voted UK Sports Journalist of the Year in 2004 and UK Internet Sports Journalist of the Year in 2009. He has been a fan of the Socceroos since his Uncle Jimmy scored the winning goal that qualified them for the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. The eight-year-old Mackay was fortunate enough to be living in Germany at the time and attended all three of Australia's matches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Choir Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781789634808
• ISBN-10: 1789634806
• Artikelnr.: 71985514