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Grand Central Publishing
September 2012
On Sale: September 18, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 1455514047
EAN: 9781455514045
Kindle: B005Z23UIC
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Non-Fiction Sports
This is a true story. As a kid growing up in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood in
New York City, Joe Moglia dreamed of someday becoming the
head coach of a college football team-not of becoming a
corporate titan. But sometimes, life gets in the way of our dreams. By the
time Joe was in his early 30s, he had risen through the high
school and college football ranks to become the defensive
coordinator at Dartmouth. His dream was very much within
reach. Problem was, Joe wasn't making enough money to
support his growing family. Faced with the hard choice
between chasing his lifelong dream and supporting his wife
and four young kids, Joe did the honorable thing: He walked
away from football and went to Wall Street to try to find a
job that would foot the bills at home. Joe had no training in finance. He had no MBA. His resume
reflected his coaching accomplishments and his teaching
jobs. And yet, somehow, through grit and determination, he
was able to land an entry-level position at Merrill Lynch.
Fast forward 25 years later. Joe had reached the business
world's mountaintop. He was the CEO of TD Ameritrade, one of
the country's most successful financial firms. He was
recognized as one of the most respected corporate chiefs in
America. But over all those years, Joe never shook his passion for
coaching football. In 2008, he made a fateful and stunning
decision: He voluntarily walked away from his high-paying
corporate job to do the one thing he'd left undone in his
life. He decided to pursue his original passion for becoming
a college football head coach. Getting hired as a college coach proved incredibly
difficult. College athletic directors told him it was an
impossible feat. He'd been out of football for nearly three
decades. Undaunted, and at age 60, Joe became an unpaid
intern with the University of Nebraska's football team in
2009 and 2010. In 2011, he was named the head coach of the
Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League, a
professional league teetering on the brink of financial
collapse. It was a risky proposition, but one he felt he needed to
take to prove to his naysayers that he could coach a college
team. Failure would mean the death of a dream that refused
to die. As told by Forbes writer, Monte Burke, 4TH AND GOAL is a
detailed account of Joe Moglia's amazing and uplifting life
story, his quest for his ultimate dream and its stunning
conclusion. It's a tale of overcoming adversity...of never
giving up...of never losing sight of one's true goals in life. It is a story, quite literally, of a dream deferred, but
never forgotten.
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