More than just a game
Subtitle: football v apartheid
By: Chuck Korr and Marvin Close
Contributors: Close, Marvin
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780007278794; 9780007284115
Subjects: Soccer; Prisons; Apartheid; Prisoners; Social conditions; Prisonniers; Conditions sociales; Fotboll
Description: This is the true account of how the political prisoners of South Africa's infamous Robben Island turned football into an active force in their struggle for freedom. Despite torture, regular beatings and backbreaking labour, these extraordinary men defied all odds and played organised league football in one of the ugliest and most brutal hellholes on earth. Even more astonishingly, they played the game for nearly 20 years with strict adherence to FIFA rules. This incredible story celebrates bravery and heroism and shows how sport has the power to unite and overcome adversity.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 The Apartheid State; title: Ch. 2 The Price of Resistance; title: Ch. 3 The Struggle for Prisoners' Rights; title: Ch. 4 The Need to Organize Football; title: Ch. 5 Football Establishes Itself; title: Ch. 6 The Atlantic Raiders Affair; title: Ch. 7 Growing Older with Football; title: Ch. 8 Two Football Codes on One Island; title: Ch. 9 Something More than Football; title: Ch. 10 Football Struggles to Survive; title: Ch. 11 The Arrival ofthe Soweto Generation; title: Epilogue: Life After the Island; title: The Story Behind More Than Just a Game / Chuck Korr.