Three Lions Roar: A Novel of World Cup 2006

Imagine a Sunday night championship match with the underdog U-12 boy's team pulling away with a 2-0 victory. Or how about a Champions League final with the underdog team Liverpool, after being down 3-0, coming back to win it all in a shootout? Whatever the circumstance, whoever the opponent, Three Lions Roar pays tribute to just that: The underdogs! We have all lived it, whether it was watching the World Cup final or just playing a pick up game. We have all felt it, the feeling of rising up to the occasion when all obstacles are in your way, and nobody believes it can be done. . . Achieving the impossible! For all of you who get goose bumps every time you grab a beer and discuss your old glory days, this book is dedicated to you. Wonderfully constructed, former football coach, Umut Ozturk, gives us play-by-play of a nation's race towards glory and England's hope of winning a World Cup.

(PRWEB) June 13, 2005 -- Three Lions Roar: A Novel of World Cup 2006 is about a boy's dream of one day playing for England and winning the World Cup just like his hero Charlton had done in 1966. It is a speculative fiction in which in the end England will win the World Cup with our hero Josh Roark.

Whether England wins or loses in World Cup 2006 Germany, Three Lions Roar will have a chance to roar again and again in the upcoming World Cups with sequels. Main character Josh Roark of Three Lions Roar will eventually become the Harry Potter of the football world.

Here is an editorial review by USSF Soccer Coach for Three Lions Roar: "Three Lions Roar: A Novel of World Cup 2006"

Imagine a Sunday night championship match with the underdog U-12 boy's team pulling away with a 2-0 victory. Or how about a Champions League final with the underdog team Liverpool, after being down 3-0, coming back to win it all in a shootout?

Whatever the circumstance, whoever the opponent, Three Lions Roar pays tribute to just that: The underdogs! We have all lived it, whether it was watching the World Cup final or just playing a pick up game. We have all felt it, the feeling of rising up to the occasion when all obstacles are in your way, and nobody believes it can be done... Achieving the impossible!

For all of you who get goose bumps every time you grab a beer and discuss your old glory days, this book is dedicated to you. Wonderfully constructed, my former football coach, Umut Ozturk, gives us play-by-play of a nation's race towards glory and England's hope of winning a World Cup.

Three Lions Roar: A Novel of World Cup 2006"

will be available at www.Amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, and www.Barnesandnoble.com starting July 15, 2005.

About the Author

Umut Ozturk was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1977. He moved to the United States in 1990 at the age of twelve. He graduated from Biloxi High School in 1995 and received his B.A. in Speech Communications from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2000. He has coached soccer for the Biloxi Soccer Organization from 1995 to 2002.

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