Leigh Matthews: Autobiography: Accept the Challenge

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge and at spine. Interior and binding are excellent.

Four-time Premiership player voted the player of the 20th Century, and four-time Premiership coach Leigh Matthews offers rare insights into the life and learning experiences that have shaped him along his successful and turbulent journey.

Autobiographical in style, Accept the Challenge takes the reader back to Leigh's early childhood and his current position as an elder statesman of the game. In an honest self-appraisal, Leigh ponders the influences and experiences that shaped his character, decisions, and career.

Leigh is extremely open as the book explores early childhood, the fortune of moving to Hawthorn, and the commencement of the shaping of his philosophy and beliefs by legendary coaches John Kennedy, David Parkin, and Allan Jeans. It identifies with the pressures of coaching Collingwood and the relief that success delivers. The task of building a champion team in the Brisbane Lions and the different personalities contributed to the challenge but also to the successful formula that dominated the sport at the turn of the century.

Lessons in team dynamics, man management, keys to success, goal setting, and crisis management are interspersed with revealing anecdotes and exclusive content from the biggest name in the game during the sport's most successful era. (book flap)