MICHAEL OLISE
The Silent Magician : The Rise of Football's Most Creative PlaymakerBy Betty S Keating
Length1h 52m
About this audiobook
Three academies let him go before he turned fifteen. Nobody wanted him enough to keep him.
Arsenal passed. Chelsea developed him for seven years, then released him at fourteen. Manchester City took a chance and gave up on him within a year. By the time most footballers his age are dreaming of a professional debut, Michael Olise had already been told, three separate times, that he was not good enough to stay.
He proved every one of them wrong.
Michael Olise: The Silent Magician is the fully sourced, meticulously researched story of how a quiet, unassuming winger from Hayes, west London, born to a Nigerian father and a French Algerian mother and eligible to play for four different countries, clawed his way from the middle of England's Championship table to the biggest stage in world football. It is a story with no shortcuts: four academies, a release clause activated for less than nine million pounds, a Premier League breakout built on statistics nobody was watching, a body that broke down again and again just when everything seemed to be coming together, and a national team that made him wait years before it finally came calling.
Then, almost overnight, everything changed. A home Olympics in Paris where a virtually unknown twenty two year old became the standout creative player of the entire tournament. A fifty million pound transfer to Bayern Munich that turned him, within two seasons, into a back to back Bundesliga champion and the league's Player of the Season. A manager who compared him, without hesitation, to Kevin De Bruyne. A teammate who called him simply one of the best players in the world. And then, at the very top, on the biggest stage of all, a World Cup semi final that reminded everyone, Olise included, that no rise is ever truly finished.
This is not a highlight reel. It is the honest, carefully documented account of a footballer who let his game speak because he rarely did: the injuries that nearly derailed him, the coaches who fought for him when his future was in doubt, the identity that took two decades to settle, and the relentless, quiet discipline that turned a boy released three times over into one of the most watched attacking players in Europe.
For fans of underdog sports stories, football biography, and the rare athlete who lets his talent do the talking, this is the definitive account of Michael Olise, so far.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Other
Length1 hr 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2Acknowledgements
3INTRODUCTION
4CHAPTER 1: A STAR IS BORN: THE MAKING OF MICHAEL OLISE
5CHAPTER 2: ROOTS ACROSS CULTURES
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6CHAPTER 3: FALLING IN LOVE WITH FOOTBALL
7CHAPTER 4: REDEFINING
8CHAPTER 5: READING FC: WHERE DREAMS BECAME REALITY
9CHAPTER 6: ANNOUNCING HIMSELF
10CHAPTER 7: CHOOSING THE NEXT STEP
11CHAPTER 8: THE PREMIER LEAGUE CHALLENGE
12CHAPTER 9: THE ARTIST ON THE WING
13CHAPTER 10: SETBACKS THAT BUILT CHARACTER
14CHAPTER 11: RISING AMONG EUROPE’S ELITE
15CHAPTER 12: A NEW CHAPTER AT BAYERN MUNICH
16CHAPTER 13: WEARING THE FRENCH COLORS
17CHAPTER 14: EXPERIENCE
18CHAPTER 15: LIFE BEYOND FOOTBALL
19CHAPTER 16: RECORDS, RECOGNITION, AND LASTING INFLUENCE
20CHAPTER 17: THE SILENT MAGICIAN’S LEGACY
21CONCLUSION
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