How to Make the World Cup and Survive Grade Five

Carla Fitzgerald

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702272974
• Year: 2026

' It' s easy to be an armchair critic but much harder when you' re the one making the decisions.' Eleven-year-old Ronni is basically a professional athlete … at watching sport. If it' s on a screen, she' s glued to it, just like her parents. But when Ronni and her best friend, Kai, are recruited to secretly coach the Australian women' s soccer team for the World Cup qualifiers, she discovers life looks very different on the other side of the screen. Suddenly, Ronni' s running training sessions on the sly and sidestepping suspicious players. The team is floundering, social-media critics (including her own dad!) are piling on – and worst of all, Kai thinks her tactics are way off. Turns out coaching is tougher than it looks! With the team' s World Cup dreams slipping away and her friendship on the line, Ronni must choose: stay on the bench or get in the game?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Author Biography
• Also by Carla Fitzgerald
• Title Page
• Imprint Page
• Dedication
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Chapter 31
• Chapter 32
• Chapter 33
• Chapter 34
• Chapter 35
• Chapter 36
• Acknowledgements