"Football is My Passport" is an autobiography by Billy Wright, who is well-known as the former captain of both the England national team and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. This book provides an in-depth look at Wright's life and career, offering insights into his journey from a young football enthusiast to becoming a prominent figure in English football. Billy Wright has skippered England in more internationals and in more countries than any other soccer player in the history of the game (circa 1960's).
His has been on a fascinating football trail that has led from Rio to Moscow, from Dakar to New York, from the Old World to the New. Possessing such unique experience, he can write with complete authority on England’s international triumphs and shortcomings and on the great hopes he nurses for the future. As fine a club player as he is an international, Billy Wright emerges as a young man who has thought deeply about the game. Here are his forthright but scrupulously fair comments on such provocative matters as television and football, the effect of modern conditions upon would be players, and the value of star footballers in a team. England’s captain has written a book which will have an immediate appeal to all interested in Association football.
