CONIFA

This is not a book about football. Well it is in a sense but it's also a book about overcoming the odds. About being rejected from the sporting mainstream but fighting back. About training for an international tournament with only a single ball. It's about representing one country but being forced to live your life in another. About finding sporting representation as a rank outsider; overcoming political superpowers to find a place. It's about scrambling a team together in a few weeks to represent millions of people or fronting a multi-continental organization on a near-bankrupt shoestring because it's that important to your indigenous reindeer-herding Scandinavian ethnic minority that they have their own global international outlet. Those last two paragraphs probably sound like hyperbole. I couldn't quite believe it either but every word of them is real. Follow me on a journey down a footballing rabbit hole where sport and politics mingle in glorious positive harmony. This is CONIFA