Kieft by Michel van Egmond

An intimate, unflinching portrait of a celebrated Dutch striker that follows his meteoric rise in professional football, the pressures and excesses that accompanied fame, his descent into alcoholism and personal crisis, and the struggle for recovery and redemption; drawing on interviews and archival material, the book offers a candid behind-the-scenes look at the human cost of elite sport and the complicated relationship between talent, vulnerability, and public scrutiny.