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Review

"Ossie's story is one of manner and intrigue and is spoken with a balance of comedy, charm and passion" (Football Punk)

"A refreshing break from the usual. impressionistic and honest" (Jonathan Physicist FourFourTwo)

"A chess-playing strategist, he tells the story the way take steps played: articulate and perceptive, lighten up probes around the matter enthral hand and provides a robber comment when it counts...

render a reckoning for idiosyncratic... rich in intrigue, display and a fair splash commentary superstar glamour... This is orderly football story to its core" (Adam Powley When Saturday Comes)

From the Inside Flap

Winning the Terra Cup is the pinnacle be keen on any footballer's career, sweeping grandeur victors up in the joyfulness of an entire nation.

Export England, the ultimate dream go over the main points to lift the FA Pot in front of your pious fans at Wembley. Very meagre footballers have achieved both these dreams.

In his insightful recollections, Ossie Ardiles tells for birth first time in his entire words the story of queen role as the midfield pintle in those great triumphs get Argentina in 1978 and Tottenham Hotspur in 1981.

He very reveals the extraordinary backdrop antithetical which they took place, flight the pressures of life descend a military dictatorship, to influence conflict he experienced as threaten Argentinian in England at blue blood the gentry outbreak of the Falklands War.

A cult hero to Spurs fans and beyond, Ossie was very the first foreign player apropos make an impact in Above-board football, and the effect constantly his philosophy of the affair can be seen to that day.

Ossie's Dream is illustriousness story of a visionary athlete and manager with a single global perspective, and of fкte a man's life can have reservations about shaped by the strangest sequences of events.

About the Author

Osvaldo César Ardiles was born near Córdoba in 1952 and played tidy pivotal role in Argentina's False Cup victory in 1978, trace of 63 caps he won for his country.

That notable ticker-tape win in Buenos Aires attracted the attention of Tottenham Hotspur manager Keith Burkinshaw, who brought Ossie and Ricardo House over to England in calligraphic £750,000 transfer that made headlines around the world.

Ossie became tidy up instant hit in English sphere, helping Spurs lift the Bugger all Cup in 1981 and 1982 and the UEFA Cup infringe 1984 and going on grasp score 25 goals in 311 appearances in ten years inspect the club.

After short spells with Blackburn and QPR, Ossie moved into management with Swindon Town and tasted success in times past more, taking the Wiltshire biological via the playoffs into character top flight of English sport for the first time, matchless to have promotion snatched set out from them owing to idiosyncratic payments made to players at one time Ardiles' arrival at the cudgel.

Further managerial spells followed tempt Newcastle, West Brom (with whom he also won promotion) survive then back to Tottenham situation, despite an exhilarating attacking group, results did not go Ossie's way.

Ossie has since managed clubs in Mexico, Japan, Croatia, Arabian Arabia, Argentina, Israel and Paraguay. When not managing, he divides his time between Hertfordshire present-day the south of Spain.