From Winning Teams to Broken Dreams: The story of six friends and their journey to make to the Premier League - Softcover

Ball, Dominic

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798800637052

Publisher: Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

What is it like to give your all but see the dream of becoming a top-flight footballer slowly die before your eyes?

A book every parent should read before allowing their child to join a top-flight football academy, Dominic Ball’s moving memoir is the real-life mud, sweat and tears journey of six band-of-brothers friends and their quest to become Premier League footballers.

Plucked from junior clubs as primary school age children by England’s biggest football academies, From Winning Teams to Broken Dreams reveals the inside out experiences of boys who strain every sinew to make the grade.

A Championship level footballer currently with QPR and a former England Under-20 international, Ball lifts the lid on the highs and lows, doubts and fears, lucky breaks and heartache, trials and tribulations, lonely loan moves and cruel, untimely injuries experienced by many young footballers.

Written to raise funds for Sarcoma UK, a charity that supports research into the rare form of bone cancer that claimed the life of Spencer McCall, one of the six boys featured at the age of just 26, From Winning Teams to Broken Dreams shines a light and poses serious questions about football youth development in England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798800637052
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: McMahon Brendan
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Green Chris