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The Zimbabwe Dream Team: So Near Yet So Far, tells the story of the most loved and best supported Zimbabwean national football team. The iconic team blessed with the goalkeeping brilliance of Bruce Grobbelaar, the dribbling wizadry of Peter Ndlovu, Agent Sawu’s goals, Reinhard Fabisch’s motivation and much more – took the nation on a footballing journey like no other. Zimbabweans who did not follow football, followed the Dream Team.
Unbeatable at home between between August 1992 and July 1995 the Dream Team felled giants of African football such as Cameroon and Egypt and spanked minnows like Lesotho and Mauritius.
Despite the home impregnability and the support of an entire nation the Dream Team, three times, came agonizingly close to qualifying for AFCON (twice) and the World Cup (once) much to the disappointment of those that invested their lives and emotions in this select group of players.
Told through the eyes of a young boy who watched, listened to and kept reports of all the matches, from the first to the last day, a young man who experienced all the roller coaster of emotions that came with supporting the team, the book is a comprehensive and definitive account of the near golden period in Zimbabwean football, the players who dared to make the nation dream and a historical account of the sport in the country.
23 x 15 cms, softback, 274 pages.
2021
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