Home and Away by Dave Bidini

Home and Away by Dave Bidini

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In 2008 the author accompanies Team Canada to the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. This title looks at the poor and dispossessed, from the barrios of Mexico City and the shanties of West Africa to the streets of North America and Europe, and illuminates the renewed meaning that these homeless players find in the beautiful game.

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Home and Away by Dave Bidini

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
Dave Bidini is the author of nine books, two documentary films and one play. As a columnist for the Toronto Star and The National Post, he has received numerous National Magazine Awards. His first book on sports, 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. In 2007, the CBC named Whale Music, which Bidini wrote and recorded with his former band, Rheostatics, one of the Top 20 Canadian Albums of All-Time. Bidini is a board member of Street Soccer Canada, and has attended two Homeless World Cups, travelling with Team Canada to Melbourne and Milan. He lives in Toronto with his wife, guitarist Janet Morassutti, and their two children.
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ISBN 13 9781616083069
ISBN 10 1616083069
Title Home and Away
Author Dave Bidini
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Year published 2011-07-01
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.