Date 14 May 2019
Pages 40
Format cm 25 x 33
Price € 16.50
EAN 9791093266312
Publisher Website www.editionscepages.fr

Sunakali, the "Messi of the Himalayas"

Publisher Cépages
Category Children's Books
Keywords True story - Football - Nepal
Age 6-99-12
The extraordinary true story of a young Nepalese farm girl who became a football champion.

When members of an NGO give Sunakali and her friends a ball, playing football immediately becomes the girls’ passion! But the fate of these young goat herders is turned upside down by the arrival of a coach, who comes to their Nepalese village in search of players to form the very first national junior girls’ team. Sunakali doesn’t yet know it yet, but she is about to embark on an extraordinary adventure…
First published in 2019.

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