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Daniel Everett was a missionary who was ready to devote his life to the Pirahãs, a small tribe of the Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. He moved all the way (including his wife and two young kids) to the Amazon jungle to learn their unique language and culture, aim to translate the Bible and convert them eventually. But as he joked - “I am a happy failure” - after decades of hard work, he was only able to “convert” one person - himself - from a Christian to atheist.

I read the most of the book this April in Karuizawa when I was carrying on my Writing Spree activity. Really enjoyed it, it was like I was in the Amazon jungle and experienced an extrordinary life myself.

“ThisTwelve years ago, Canadian-born Josh Geauvreau was sitting around the television with his family in Berlin, Germany, watching the 2006 FIFA World Cup final between Italy and France.

“I remember that it was incredible. I was watching it at my grandmother’s house on the Sunday, and it was so nerve wracking,” he said.

As a young boy, the experience was both memorable and influential as immediately after returning to Thunder Bay, Ont., Geauvreau began his own soccer career.

Soccer, or ‘the world’s game,’ reaches all four corners of the globe. It has the largest fan base in the world, with the 2014 World Cup reaching an audience of 3.2 billion people, according to FIFA.

Soccer has been slowly creeping its way into Canadian society since the early 2000s and the Canadian Soccer