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    Paul Pogba: Making His Mark on the Soccer World
    Paul Pogba: Making His Mark on the Soccer World
    Paul Pogba: Making His Mark on the Soccer World
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    Paul Pogba: Making His Mark on the Soccer World

    By Brian Trusdell

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    Starting when he was a teenager, Paul Pogba has taken the soccer world by storm. With his dynamic play in the midfield for the French national team and some of the biggest club teams in Europe, plus his charismatic personality off the field, Pogba is truly one of a kind.

    This exciting book gives readers an in-depth look into everything that makes Pogba a star, from his childhood on the streets of Paris to his career with some of the biggest clubs in Europe to his success on the global stage in the World Cup.

    Every sports franchise has its face—the star of the show, the player fans can’t take their eyes off of, the one whose talent determines the fate of the entire operation. The Franchise series explores these athletes’ stories, taking readers into the players’ lives on and off the field of play. Learn about your favorite athletes’ early days, the challenges they’ve overcome to reach the top, and the qualities that make them truly incomparable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Star Editions
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    ISBN9781634940610
    Paul Pogba: Making His Mark on the Soccer World
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    Brian Trusdell

    Brian Trusdell has been a sportswriter for over 30 years, including at The Associated Press and Bloomberg News. He has reported from six Olympics, four World Cups, and traveled to every continent except Antarctica. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Megan and daughter Maya.

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      Paul Pogba - Brian Trusdell

      Paul Pogba: Making His Mark on the Soccer World © 2019 by Press Room Editions. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from the copyright owner, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      First Edition

      First Printing, 2019

      Book design by Jake Slavik

      Cover design by Jake Slavik

      Photographs ©: Christian Liewig/Abaca/Sipa USA/AP Images, cover (foreground), cover (right), 88; Jean Catuffe/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images, 4; Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images, 6; Peter Dejong/AP Images, 8, 12; Ekaterina Pokrovsky/Shutterstock Images, 14; pavalena/Shutterstock Images, 17; smolaw/Shutterstock Images, 20; Yuryev Pavel/Shutterstock Images, 24; PhotoLondonUK/Shutterstock Images, 29; Matthew Peters/Manchester United/Getty Images, 30, 33; Andrew Matthews/URN:10006652/Press Association/AP Images, 35; Dave Thompson/PA Wire URN:13959241/Press Association/AP Images, 39; Luca Bruno/AP Images, 40; Massimo Pinca/AP Images, 45, 49; Gero Breloer/AP Images, 47; Efrem Lukatsky/AP Images, 50; Dave Winter/Icon Sport/Cal Sport Media/AP Images, 55; Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Images, 57; Matteo Bottanelli/Sipa/AP Images, 58, 64; Matteo Ciambelli/1411231131/Sipa/AP Images, 61; Philip Oldham/Sportimage/Cal Sport Media/AP Images, 67; Martin Meissner/AP Images, 68, 72; John Spencer/Sipa/AP Images, 75; KCS Presse/Splash News/Newscom, 76; Jon Super/AP Images, 80; Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency/AP Images, 83; Matt Dunham/AP Images, 87; Hassan Ammar/AP Images, 90; Elmar Kremser/Sven Simon/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images, 94; Matthias Schrader/AP Images, 98; Kyodo/AP Images, 101

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      Press Box Books, an imprint of Press Room Editions.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018952199

      ISBN:

      978-1-63494-049-8 (paperback)

      978-1-63494-061-0 (epub)

      978-1-63494-073-3 (hosted ebook)

      Distributed by North Star Editions, Inc.

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      Printed in the United States of America

      Chapter 1

      Pogboom!

      More than 50,000 fans, most of them dressed in orange, filled the stands at the Amsterdam Arena, loudly cheering the Netherlands national soccer team. Some waved flags and banners. Many hurled insults at the opposing French national team. But in an instant, they all went silent.

      French defender Laurent Koscielny intercepted a pass near the midfield line. He quickly sent it to teammate Dimitri Payet on the left. Then Payet squared the ball into the middle of the field. His unmarked teammate, Paul Pogba, received it.

      Pogba, a central midfielder, took one touch forward. The Dutch captain, Kevin Strootman, gave Pogba space. Positioned 35 yards from the goal, Pogba sensed his opportunity. So the Frenchman wound up and unleashed a rocket of a shot. The ball knuckled, swerved, and dipped to the left. Dutch goalie Maarten Stekelenburg dived. He was able to get his hands to the ball, but that was not enough. The ball glanced off his fingers and deflected into the net.

      Great goal! screamed the television announcer.

      Pogba simply nodded his head as his French teammates mobbed him.

      Powerful shots were nothing new for Pogba. Although he was only 23 years old at the time, he had established himself on two of the biggest club teams in Europe. His physical presence, vision, and technical ability on the ball made him a force in the central midfield. And when the opportunity arose, Pogba had proven he could score goals, too.

      This wasn’t any ordinary goal, though. The game was on October 10, 2016. France was in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for a challenging road game in FIFA World Cup qualifying. Only one team from the qualifying group would automatically advance to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Pogba’s score put France up 1–0 against one of its biggest rivals. The Netherlands had finished third at the 2014 World Cup. It had not lost a World Cup qualifying game since 2001, a stretch of 33 games. But thanks to Pogba’s goal, that streak ended.

      France went on to win 1–0. Now with momentum, the team known as

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