How Football Can Change the World (Unbelievable Football)

Bought this for my granddaughter -she loved it. It’s an easy to read book and informative.

How Football Can Change the World: Incredible True Stories of Football Changing the WorldBought as gift for my nephew who is 8 years old, was perfect for himGreat GiftEasy read

Footballers get a bad rap, and it is easy to be jealous when they get paid so much for kicking a pig's bladder around some grass, but like most things in life, the bad may sell papers, but the good still exists. ‘Unbelievable Football 2: How Football Can Change the World’ by Matt Oldfield and illustrated Ollie Mann is the second outing of tales about how football and footballer can do good.The biggest inclusion from book one is all the work that Marcus Rashford has done to help with child poverty. There are lots of other inspirational stories like this in the book. It is great for a young football player, especially one that is overly competitive and wants the fame. It reminds them that if they do make it, they can do good.The book has a lot of writing and suits a confident reader 10-14. Mann's illustrations are limited so it still feels like a book that an older child would read. I know the ideal reader for this book, and it works wonderfully for them, but it is not going to inspire a non-football fan.

Now when it comes to Football it is fun.And I can't really describe what is in this book yet because my daughter didn't finish reading it yet.Just before reading it the cover seems cool with Marcus Rashford on the front giving out food supplies to kids in need of the food supplies.And I think that it is talking about footballers and what they do like give food like Marcus Rashford or some football stories I think.And how FOOTBALL CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.

An unbelievable follow-up to the book that took on all comers to win the 2020 Children’s Sports Book of the Year. This time, author Matt Oldfield has decided to inspire football-loving boys and girls to find ways of making their sporting passion ‘Change the World’. Oldfield’s ebullience as well as his humour and eye for quirk shine though every chapter of this collection of tales of generosity, dedication to life-enhancing causes, racial and gender equality, and plain human kindness.Marcus Rashford’s fight to end food poverty is merely the beginning. Youngsters will read of peace-bringing footballers putting warmongers to shame in the war-torn Balkans; girls in India overcoming gender discrimination to inspire others all over the world; and uplifting acts of football-related heroism during the COVID pandemic.

Highly recommend this collection of inspiring true football stories.Great way to get your football mad child into reading. Entertaining and inspiring, Matt Oldfield is dedicated to encouraging children to read and to be all-round good citizens of the planet.Ipswich Children's Book Group.

Interesting one this, it’s not a book packed with “fun facts” but one that gives examples where footballers and football can be a force for good. Sometimes slightly evangelical in tone it does deliver the message that football is not just about money. It covers the obvious stuff about the great work Rashford has done and how Stirling dealt with racism but also international tales of inspiration and kindness. Who knew Juan Mata bought shares in his boyhood club to stop them going into administration? Who knew Balotelli was such a dog lover?But this also covers non professional footballers and kids and champions things they have done. So, slightly preachy “always be kind kids” but a book with its heart in the right place and with some relevant messages.

Great book for encouraging a voracious young reader and football fan