Footballers Autobiographys

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Hi all,

Are there any decent footballers autobiography's I should be reading? I'm not really interested in oldies (Pele, Maradonna etc). I would like players that have retired in the past 5 years or so, or are still playing.

Cheers
 
Andybtsn said:
I'm not really interested in oldies
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That's a pity because Garrincha's biography is quite something - he had bow legs and yet is considered by many fans of his era to have actually been better than Pelé. When he started playing football professionally he didn't understand the objective was to score goals, he just loved beating his opponents by dribbling around them - so much so that he would beat a man, have sight of an open goal but because it was more fun he would turn around, go back and dribble around the defender again. A pain for coaches, but he won a ridiculous number of titles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrincha

You think today's footballers are depraved and lacking morals? Garrincha lost his virginity to a goat! and that was because his penis was legendarily huge - he wasn't allowed to **** the boys during the sex games in his village while growing up. All perfectly normal - they were all sort of heterosexual, but in their culture it was perfectly acceptable to have sex with boys if there were no girls, or have sex with goats if there were no boys or girls. Once he got out of the village and girls were available he was quite prolific with his conquests, and had a lot of children as well.

He had massive problems with alcohol addiction, to the extent that he was paranoid and hallucinated swarms of spiders attacking him. Garrincha makes George Best look quite restrained and sober!
 
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Most are complete BS and just spout platitudes.

I only search out those who i know are characters so the only two I have read are Mick Quinn and Gazza. Both are fantastic (especially Quinny) and are laugh a minute. Could not recommend them enough!!!
 
"Im not really here" by Paul Lake is incredible. Look up reviews etc which echo this.
Great read for me as a City fan but for a football fan it is fantastic also.
 
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