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For days gone by ten years, an audacious program called Basketball Dreams has performed tryouts for millions of young children across Africa, looking for soccer's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped unveiling Lionel Messi's job and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the program chooses simply a handful of children each year to teach to become specialists; the procedure is 1000 times more selective than getting into Harvard University. In an extraordinary work of reporting, international politics, and sports activities technology, Sebastian Abbot employs a small band of the boys because they are discovered on dirt and grime fields across Africa, sign up for the glittering Basketball Dreams academy in Doha, and attack for the opportunity to gain fame and bundle of money at Europe's top clubs. Weaving jointly the episode of the children' perseverance to chase their dreams with the latest ideas on expertise spotting and predicting sporting success, Abbot memorably explores why some of the boys do well and chronicles the heartbreak of those who don't.
