Thirty one nil : on the road with football's outsiders, a world cup odyssey / James Montague.

"Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their pursuit of World Cup qualification. It celebrates the part-time labourers, fisherman, princes and hopeless chancers who dream of making it to Brazil, in defiance of the staggering odds stacked against them. But...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Montague, James (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Subjects:
World Cup (Soccer)
Soccer teams.
Physical Description:330 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
31 nil.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Palestine, Afghanistan
  • Haiti, US Virgin Islands, Curaçao
  • Rwanda, Eritrea
  • American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga
  • Lebanon, United Arab Emirates
  • Egypt, Mozambique
  • Antigua and Barbuda, United States
  • Switzerland, Albania, Kosovo
  • Croatia, Serbia
  • Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda and Eritrea reprised
  • Brazil, Nigeria, Spain, Tahiti
  • Romania, Hungary
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia
  • Iceland, Norway
  • Jordan, Uruguay
  • The last thirty-two
  • Postscript.