Jerzy Dudek : a big Pole in our goal : my autobiography /
by Dudek, Jerzy; Kurowski, Dariusz.
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BookPublisher: Liverpool : Sport Media, 2016Edition: First English edition.Description: 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781910335291 (hbk.) :; 1910335290 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 DUDSubject(s): Dudek, Jerzy | Soccer goalkeepers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Soccer goalkeepers -- Poland -- Biography | Biography | BiographySummary: Liverpool Football Club has won trophy after trophy. It has enjoyed success after success. Supporters on the Kop - the most famous stand in football - have worshipped hero after hero. But some of them are more unlikely than others. Jerzy Dudek suffered third degree burns as a child in his native Poland. He grew up in a flat in an industrial Eastern Bloc town. He learned to play football on a patch of grass with bricks as goalposts and worked as a miner in his teens. A career as a professional footballer seemed unlikely - some would say impossible - but this is the story of how he overcame those odds to star for Liverpool FC in the most remarkable Champions League final of all time.
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Liverpool Football Club has won trophy after trophy. It has enjoyed success after success. Supporters on the Kop - the most famous stand in football - have worshipped hero after hero. But some of them are more unlikely than others. Jerzy Dudek suffered third degree burns as a child in his native Poland. He grew up in a flat in an industrial Eastern Bloc town. He learned to play football on a patch of grass with bricks as goalposts and worked as a miner in his teens. A career as a professional footballer seemed unlikely - some would say impossible - but this is the story of how he overcame those odds to star for Liverpool FC in the most remarkable Champions League final of all time.
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