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Kick the Balls: An Offensive Suburban Odyssey | 
 enlarge | Author: Alan Black
Publisher: Hudson Street Press
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Sales Rank: 1180017
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 159463047X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.334
EAN: 9781594630477
ASIN: 159463047X
Publication Date: June 12, 2008 (In 26 Days)
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Product Description
Fever Pitch meets Trainspotting in this laugh-outloud, caustic account of one mans attempt to coach a peewee soccer team
When Alan Black was a child growing up in Glasgow, Scotland, socceror what he called fitbawas the be all and end all. His experience was not the little league, boys-of-summer stuff of modern America. For him, it was life and death. Now middleaged and living in California, Alan finds himself coaching a team of eight-year-olds in his beloved sportand nothing is going right.
For a start, the kids are no good at soccer. Secondly, theyre pampered. Born and bred on the sport, Blacks hardscrabble Scottish upbringing consisted of playing tough and victory at all costs. Needless to say, his coaching methods are a far cry from the winning isnt everything mentality his little leaguers have been reared with; and players and parents alike are shocked as Black attempts to transform the losing team through drills and bombast. Alone at night, watching evangelicals on TV, Black finds himself searching for some truth in the culture he finds so bizarre. And its with the Tigers that he feels most out of syncfaced with a mix of soft suburban children, a raft of overprotective parents, and an Iranian co-coach called Ali. Told with Blacks uproarious Scottish sensibility, Kick the Balls follows the abrasive, irreverent, and hilarious coach as he contends with a team that winds up with a zero-win record.
Both a celebration of his own tough childhood and an account of one mans navigation of an alien culture, Kick the Balls will delight fans of well-told, laugh-out-loud memoirs.
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