Home and Away: One Writer's Inspiring Experience at the Homeless World Cup

by Dave Bidini

Overview

In 2008, Dave Bidini accompanies Homeless Team Canada to the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. As he watches team members play and shares their disappointments, frustrations, joys, and triumphs, he comes to care deeply about the players—fo

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620874745
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	02/06/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dave Bidini is the author of nine books, two documentary films, and one play. He is a columnist for the Toronto Star and the National Post. His first book in the sports genre, Tropic of Hockey, was named one of the Top 100 Canadian Books of All-Time by McClelland and Stewart, and his baseball odyssey, Baseballissimo, is currently being made into a feature film. Bidini is a board member of Street Soccer Canada and has attended two Homeless World Cups, traveling with Team Canada to Melbourne and Milan. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and their two children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Prologue: Shadow and Muscle 1

1 What Teams Do 9

2 Cold Turkey Soccer 14

3 Journey to Oz 19

4 Walter Mitty and a Dildo 30

5 The Song of India 37

6 500 Miles 52

7 Dove 52

8 Vannie and the Mountain Lions 71

9 Ole Soft Tits 83

10 Where the Fuck is Denmark? 88

11 The Search for Stevie Ray 90

12 L'Altri Azzurri 100

13 The Russians 105

14 Up and Down with the USA 119

15 The World Cup Final in a Teacup 126

16 When You're Too Tired to Run 138

17 Fucked Up 142

18 Krystal and the Cambodians 147

19 The Wanderer 153

20 No Direction Home 162

Epilogue: Extra Time 171