Kaiser! The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football

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Publisher's Synopsis

1980s Rio de Janeiro.

There's only one king in this city and he's got the mullet, swagger and fake ID to prove it.

Introducing Carlos Henrique Raposo, known to all as KAISER.

This guy's got more front than Copacabana beach. He's the most loveable of rogues with the most common of dreams: to become a professional footballer. And he isn't about to let trivial details like talent and achievement stand in his way. . . not when he has so many other ways to get what he wants.

In one of the most remarkable football stories ever told, Kaiser graduates from abandoned slumdog to star striker, dressing-room fixer, superstar party host and inexhaustible lover.

And all without kicking a ball.

He's not just the king… he's the Kaiser.

About the Publisher

Yellow Jersey Press

Yellow Jersey Press, launched in 1998, is a sports publisher with a literary edge. It is home to titles from some of sport's greatest heroes, like Frank Bruno, Diego Maradona and Seve Ballesteros, and some of sport's greatest writers including William Fotheringham, Gary Imlach, Paul Kimmage and H.G. Bissinger. It is the publisher of four winners of the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, including the 2011 winner, A Life Too Short, by Ronald Reng.

Book information

ISBN: 9781787290259
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 796.334092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 252g
Height: 197mm
Width: 143mm
Spine width: 22mm