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The 2006 World Cup Winner

The world of fiction is not so fictional anymore. One new authors novel seems to be turning into reality, but this may end with one major sporting event. The 2006 World Cup is heading our way and if the outcome is anywhere near to a fictional prediction, the world may have already read a bit of the future. In a fictional account of the World Cup 2006 Turkish Author Umut Ozturk has masterfully created a one-of-a-kind novel. Three Lions Roar: A Novel of World Cup 2006 is quickly becoming one of the most fascinating football books of all time. This book not only chronicles the intriguing, unique, and sometimes frenzied dimensions of the World Cup, but it also smoothly intertwines a page-turning plot involving action, drama, and love.

Ozturk introduces us to team England and its fans, a nation craving another World Cup championship for forty years, where a father-son team takes the English soccer scene by storm. Next are the well-anticipated World Cup 2006 finals, a thrilling clash of the titans. England faces Germany in a rematch of the 1966 final starring Bobby Charlton and his English team. Never before has an author dared to write a novel predicting the outcome of an event of this magnitude, not to mention that Ozturk?s version of the World Cup 2006 is beginning to become World Cup 2006.

The novelty of this book easily makes it the greatest sporting book of all time. The writing draws you in with exciting action that makes lovable characters, sports nail-biting, and the often complicated world of football understandable. Ozturk skillfully takes England through the World Cup preliminaries that read almost like the news articles written about the actual matches. In the novel, England captures first place in their group, Group B. England was recently the first team called in the World Cup FIFA 2006 draw, called into Group B. This should mark the celebration of an untapped trend in books and sports.