More Than Just a Game: Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told

by Chuck Korr and Marvin Close

Book Overview

Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how political prisoners under apartheid found hope and dignity through soccer.

In the hell that was Robben Island, inmates united courageously in an act of protest. Beginning in 1964, they requested the right to play soccer during their exercise periods. Denied repeatedly, they risked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312607164
• ISBN13: 9780312607166
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"